FRED YATES

OLANTA - Fred William Yates age 74, died Oct. 29, 2010, at his home after an illness.

Funeral services were held Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, at Floyd Funeral Home chapel with burial in the Yates Family Cemetery.

Born in Clarendon County, he was a son of the late Paul Silas Yates and Maggie Marie Johnson Yates. Yates was a retired millwright in the textile industry, a Mason and member of Seneca Lodge # 185.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mildred Diane Martin Yates; five brothers, Carrol Yates, Willard Yates Sr., Venroe Yates, Vernon Yates and Clinton Yates; three sisters, Irene Gibbons, Mary Emma Yates and Esterline Yates.

Surviving are two daughters, Marie Pierce of Seneca and Anne Reynolds of Olanta; one son, Billy Yates of Olanta; two sisters, Anise Earley of Baltimore, Md., and Stella Phelps of Florence; one brother, Donald Yates of Lake City; eight grandchildren;and 15 great-grandchildren.