ROCKINGHAM — Wilma McLean Yates passed away at home after a short illness on Nov. 6, 2020.
She was born Dec. 30, 1923, the daughter of Perry and Rennie Thomas McLean. Wilma married the love of her life, Leon Yates in 1942.
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and was an asset to that church choir as well as every choir she participated for she had the voice of an angel. Wilma liked to keep her talented hands busy with arts and crafts, cooking, gardening, reading and games of solitaire. She did so many crossword puzzles that her husband Leon used to say that she was going to be buried six down and three across.
Wilma was preceded in death by her husband and her son, Ronald Yates; also by her brother, Bill McLean, and her sisters Aileen Cobb Traylor, Dorothy Allen and Betty Dobbins.
A graveside service will be conducted Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020 at Richmond Co. Memorial Park at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Allen Bingham officiating. Due COVID-19, please wear a face mask and continue to social distancing.
Left to cherish memories of Wilma are her daughter, Judith Yates Infinger of Rockingham and her son David Michael Yates (Robin) of Fort Collins, Colorado; grandsons, Lee Infinger (Valerie), Scott Infinger (Lori Mihalick), Jamie Yates, John Yates (Catherine), and granddaughter Christy Bartlett (Dale); great-grands, Caroline, Lauren and Maggie Infinger, Elijah and Ezerah Yates, Madelyn and Kayleigh Yates, Hazel and Sawyer Abeyta, Cory and Chad Bartlett, Halen, Dodge and Storie Jarmon; her sister-in-law Mildred McLean and Kathy Lunceford Yates.
Memorials may be made to Richmond Co. Hospice, 1119 US Hwy. 1 N Rockingham, NC 28379; or Our Daily Bread Ministry, 108 S. Randolph St. Rockingham, NC 28379.
Online condolences may be made at www.watson-kingfuneralhome.com. Watson-King Funeral Home in Rockingham is serving the Yates family.
