Yeates_Vern_5 September 1914
Our very special husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, Vern Wendell Yeates passed away peacefully Saturday evening, May 31, 1997. He was 82 years old and had lived in Boise for the last 26 years.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 3, 1997, at the Northview L.D.S. Chapel in Boise. Graveside services were held Wednesday in the Logan City Cemetery, Logan, Utah.
Vern was born on September 5, 1914 in Millville, Utah, to John and Elizabeth Jones Bailey Yeates. He attended schools in Millville and Logan, Utah, graduating from South Cache High School in 1934. He graduated from Utah Agricultural College (now U.S.UJ.) in 1938 with a B.S. degree in Agriculture.
On June 23, 1937, he married Hazel Richards in Brigham City, Utah. Their marriage was solemnized on June 23, 1938 in the Logan L.D.S. Temple. Vern had many jobs during is lifetime. He drove streetcars and buses in Sacramento, California from 1938 until 1947 when his desire to return to farming took him to Preston and Malad, Idaho. There he farmed until he went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmer’s Home Administration in 1962. He worked in the Boise, Bonner’s Ferry, Paul, and Caldwell offices until his retirement.
As a boy, Vern loved the outdoors, hunting, and fishing. In his later years he became an avid golfer, twice accomplishing a hole-in-one. He loved his family and was greatly loved by them as well as by all whose lives he touched.
Vern was active in the L.D.S. Church all of his life serving in many different callings and held the office of a High Priest at the time of his death. He and Hazel worked together in the Boise, Idaho Temple. He loved music and sang as well as played the piano and organ for his own enjoyment.
He is survived by his wife, Hazel, of 59 years; his five children: Vern Wendell Yeates Jr. (Gail), of Orangevale, California; Sherrill Jean Williams (Mark) of Boise, Idaho; Richard Morris Yeates (Joan), of Vancouver, Washington; Garth Neal Yeates (Bobbie), of Riverton, Wyoming; and Joycelyn Daun Vest (Randy) of Payson, Utah; sixteen grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; a sister, Wilma Gallagher, of Peoria, Arizona; and numerous nieces and nephews whom he loved dearly.
In Loving Memory of
Vern Wendell Yeates
1914 1997

Sometime We’ll Understand
Not now, but in the coming years,
It may be in the better land,
We’ll read the meaning of our tears,
And there, sometime we’ll understand.
Then trust in God thro’ all thy days
Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand
Tho’ dark thy way, still sing and praise
Sometime, sometime, we’ll understand
We’ll catch the broken threads again
And finish what we here began
Heav’n will the mysteries explain’
And then, oh, then we’ll understand
Then trust in God thro all thy days
Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand
Tho’ dark thy way, still sing and praise
Sometime, sometime, we’ll understand
God knows the way, He hold the key
He guides us with unerring hand
Sometime, with tearless eyes we’ll see
Yes, there, up there, we’ll understand
Then trust in God thro’ all thy days;
Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand
Tho’ dark thy way, still sing and praise
Sometime, sometime we’ll understand
Relyea Funeral Chapel