This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farris, Yancey, Dillard, Ferrick, Minnis, Patras Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeV.2ACEB/1792 Message Board Post: Tyler Morning Telegraph Tyler, TX November 26, 2003 Vera Mae Yancey Coupland---- Vera Mae Yancey, 94, a former resident of fort Worth, died peacefully Monday morning, November 24, 2003, at Round Rock hospital. Funeral: 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Chapel at Robertson Mueller Harper. The Rev. Dr. Mark W. Woods, senior minister at University Baptist Church, will officiate, Burial: Following committal services at 3 p.m., Vera will be laid to rest next to her husband, Earl, in the Williams Cemetery on Highway 64 East at Tyler. Visitation: She will lie in state on Wednesday at the funeral home where her family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Born in Lockhart on July 28, 1909, Vera Mae Farris was the daughter of Jacob and Sara Mae Farris. At an early age, she lived on a farm at Dale before the family moved to Galveston. After graduating from Ball High School, Vera went to work with Southwestern Bell as a Telephone switchboard operator before joining moody Bank. In 1942, during World War II, she worked as an operator at Camp Walters but returned to Galveston and the bank after the war. In 1949, Vera and her husband, Kenneth Earl Yancey, and their son moved to Fort Worth where she worked for Continental National Bank and retired from MBank in 1980. While in Galveston, she was an active member of the First Baptist Church. She joined University Baptist Church in Fort Worth when the family moved here. Vera will be remembered as a lovely, gracious, caring and giving lady whose home was always open to her family and friends. She loved flowers and gardening and always had a religious hymn in her song and heart. In addition to her husband, who died in 1985, she was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Otha and Bruce Farris, and sisters, Maurie Dillard, Velma Ferrick and Viola Minnis. Survivors: son, Kenneth Earl Yancey jr. and his wife Yolanda of Coupland; grandchildren, Kenneth E. Yancey III of Pflugerville, Kelly E. Yancey and his wife Yvonne of Bowling Green, KY., and Kimberly E. Patras and her husband George of Austin; great-grandchildren, Kolin Yancey and Kaitlin and Courtney Petras; several nieces and nephews; great-nieces and great-nephews; great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews; and many friends. Robertson Mueller Harper, 1500 Eighth Ave., Fort Worth (817) 924-4233