James Walter Yeager

© Alva Review-Courier

10-27-2015

Submitted by: Glenn

Funeral services will be Thursday, October 29, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Freedom United Methodist Church in Freedom, Oklahoma with Reverend Mark Kinkel, pastor Freedom First Christian Church officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, northwest of Freedom under the direction of Wharton Funeral Chapel. Online condolences may be made at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

James Walter, was born on April 24, 1949 to Bessie Louise (Cathey) and James J. (Jim) Yeager at Blackwell, Oklahoma and passed away at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City on October 23, 2015 at the age of 66 years, 5 months and 30 days.

He attended elementary school in Tonkawa, and then the family moved to Alva. He graduated from Alva High School with the class of 1967.

After graduation he went on harvest and in March of 1968 he joined the United States Air Force serving for over 20 years. While stationed at Chanute AFB, he met his wife to be Deanne Ruth Elliott and was married in May of 1969 in Springfield, Illinois and to their marriage two children were born, Ruthann Alicia and James Michael.

He served in Vietnam and was stationed in Korea, Texas, Alaska, Florida, and Louisiana during his 20 years of service.

He met his second wife, Linda F. Olden, in Alexandria, Louisiana, and was married February 14, 1978.

James accepted Christ into his life and was baptized in 1979.

He retired in 1988 after 20 years serving our country and started working for the United States Postal Service in Alexandria, Louisiana. For the past three years he has resided at the Veteran's Home in Clinton.

He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Carolyn Louise and brother-in-law, Jimmie Woodard.

He is survived by his wife Linda, daughter Alicia and son Michael both of Springfield, Illinois, sister Sherrie Woodard of Freedom, brother-in-law and family of Louisiana, nephew and nieces Kurtis, Bretta and Marlo, and great nephew and nieces Jimmie, Lacy, and Kassidy, a number of other relatives and friends.

Memorial contributions may be made in his memory to Clinton VA Member Benefit Fund through Wharton Funeral Chapel.

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