Teresa Faye Laster Yockey

November 04, 1940 ~ January 06, 2021

© Brown's Funeral Service Coalgate
(Reprinted with permission)

Submitted by: Terry Dudley

Teresa Faye (Laster) Yockey, age 80, a Coalgate resident. She was born on November 4, 1940, to Vendel Eben and Gennie Gay (Osborne) Laster, at Lehigh, OK. Teresa passed away on January 6, 2021 at Coalgate, OK. She attended school in Andover, Kansas. Teresa was a General Store owner in Marble, Arkansas. The neighborhood children would get off the bus in the evening at Teresa’s store & stay until their parents picked them up. She was their “Mother Teresa”. She started the Marble Volunteer Fire Department. Teresa was a dispatcher, volunteer firefighter & EMT. She was of the Baptist faith. Teresa loved life & people.

SURVIVED BY:
Daughter: Conita Tipton & husband Charles of Stuart, OK
Brother: Kenneth Laster & wife Patricia of Bixby, OK
7 Grandchildren, 21 Great Grandchildren & 4 Great Great Grandchildren
PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
Parents: Vendel Eben & Gennie Gay (Osborne) Laster
Son: Bobbie Owen Yockey
Sister: Margaret Tutton
Brother: Vendel Laster Jr.
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DATE OF SERVICES: 2:00 PM Friday, January 8th, 2021
PLACE OF SERVICES: Lehigh Cemetery, Lehigh, Oklahoma
OFFICIATING:
INTERMENT: Lehigh Cemetery, Lehigh, Oklahoma
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Mary Hurley Manor Activity Fund
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