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48. Eva Mae Brown (15) Photowas born on 22 Feb 1925 in St. John's, Ky. She died on 24 Aug 2002 in Christopher East Home in Louisville.

She was married to John Willie Yates (son of John Floyd Yates and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mae Patterson) on 5 Jun 1943 in St. Ann’s Church Louisville, Ky. John Willie Yates(15) was born on 15 Sep 1915 in Hardin County KY. He died on 22 Jul 1964 in Louisville Ky. He was buried on 25 Jul 1964 in Calvary Cemetery Louisville, Ky. John Willie Yates was a noted musician and played the guitar, double bass, electric bass and most notably the fiddle. Many days and nights were passed with John and friends playing "old time" country music in the front yard when friends and relatives arrived from the city. He was in the Coast Artillery during WWII and was stationed at Seattle Washington. John died of Leukemia in the summer of 1964 after moving to Louisville the previous year from the old Yates farm in Rineyville, Ky.

 

                           

Eva Mae Brown                                                      John Willie Yates

 

                             

                                                    Eva Mae Brown                                           Family of Eva Mae Brown in 1964

 

 

Tombstone of John and Eva

 

Eva Mae Brown and John Willie Yates had the following children:

child+103 i. Gerald Lewis Yates.
child+104 ii. Alice Ann Yates.
child+105 iii. Martha Elizabeth (Marti) Yates.
child+106 iv. John Michael Yates.
child+107 v. Ray Anthony Yates.
child+108 vi. James Donald Yates.
child+109 vii. Joseph Ronald Yates.

She was married to Lawrence Anthony Skees on 21 Feb 1975 in Louisville Ky. Lawrence Anthony Skees(16) (6) was born on 24 Jul 1916 in Hardin Co. Ky. He died on 7 Mar 1994 in Louisville Ky. He was buried in 1994 in St. James Church, Elizabethtown, Ky.

Lawrence Anthony Skees and Eva Mae Brown

 

 

Lawrence Anthony Skees’s Tomb Stone at St. James Cemetery in Elizabethtown Ky.