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STEVEN ARTHUR YATES
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08-09-1943 - 08-03-1992
Services for Dr. Steven A. Yates, 48, College Station, former Tyler resident, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, August 6, 1992 at A&M Church of Christ with Ben Wilkey officiating.
Burial will be in College Station City Cemetery under direction of Memorial Chapel Funeral Home Bryan.
Dr. Yates died Monday August 3, 1992 at home.
He was born August 9, 1943 in Monroe, LA and lived in Tyler 20 years. He grew up in Tyler and attended Robert E. Lee High School. He moved to College Station 18 years ago.
He received his Bachelor's Degree from Abilene Christian College and his Master's from the University of Houston. He was a Navy veteran serving in Vietnam, the Philippines and Breirierhaven. Germany.
His mother taught eight years at Robert E. Lee High School. His father was a petroleum engineer for Humble Oil and Refinery before it was Exxon. They were members of Glenwood Church of Christ in Tyler.
Dr. Yates taught at Brazosport School in Freeport and at Alvin Community College before coming to Texas A&M in 1976. He was A&M's Director of Cooperative Education from 1979 until 1991.
He earned a Doctorate in education administration from A&M in 1987. He was a member of A&M Church of Chist, where he taught junior high school Bible studies.
Survivors lnclude his wife Shanna Yates, Collage Station, a son, Steven Yates Jr., College Station; two daughters, Shelley Yates and Stacey Yates, both of College Station; his mother, Katherine Smith Yates, Baytown and his father Oscar Flavil Yates, Talco; a brother and sister-in-law, Frank and Sharon Yates, Amarillo, and a sister, Katie Yates, Bethel, Alaska.
Memorials mav be made to the A&M Development Foundation Steven A. Yates Cooperative Endowment Scholarship, Texas A&M University, P.O. Box JT, Aggielahd Station, College Station 77344 or to Hospice of Brazos County Inc.. 1408 Memorial Drive. Bryan, 77809.
Family visitation will be 8 a.m - 1 p.m., Thursday at Memorial Funeral Home, Bryan.
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Jack Sowers
Steve was a good baseball player and a better friend. On graduation night, a bunch of us got a little more than tipsy on rot-gut whiskey, smoked cheap cigars, and had the dry heaves all night long only to wake up the next morning sleeping on a blanket on the ground outside someone's lakehouse (don't remember whose it was). I was so humbled and embarassed the next morning, and still feeling the after effects of Southern Discomfort and Swisher Sweets (appropriate since some guys called me that, Sweets for Sowers), that I didn't want to go home to face my parents and my grandparents who had come over from Shreveport for the big event. So, Steve and his very understanding parents let me stay at his house the next day (and I'm darn sure I wasn't the only one who did the same). RIP, Steve
Bill Wade
While I was serving with the United States Security Service, in Bremenhave, Germany, I saw Steve. He had completed a tour in the Phillipines. Steve was with my counterpart in the Navy, the Naval Security Group. We were both under NSA control and operations.........military portion. I say Steve for the last time at 20 year reunion in Tyler.