WESLEY EUGENE YEARGIN, 79, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, passed away at 4:00 A.M. on Monday, May 30, 2011 at White Oak Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Mount Vernon. He was born on Wednesday, September 30 1931 in Mount Vernon, Illinois, a son to the late Charles Wesley & Eliza Marjean (Storey) Yeargin. He married Shirley Hunt on April 27, 1957 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois and she survives in Mount Vernon along with two Sons: Mark Eugene Yeargin of Haubstadt, Indiana and Paul Wesley Yeargin of Long Beach, California; five Grandchildren: Rachel Ann Yeargin, Lt. Jg. Charles Wesley Yeargin, Daniel Mark Yeargin, Adam Christopher Yeargin and Grayson Paul Yeargin; Sister-In-Law: Marlene Chevalier and husband Levell of Henderson, Texas. One Niece and one Nephew also Survive. His parents and one brother: Lewis Walker Yeargin preceded him in death. Wesley served in the Korean War with the U.S. Navy from September 17, 1950 to July 16, 1954 as a technician third class with D Five Control stationed aboard the destroyer USS Hollister DD 788. Following his military service he worked as an electrician for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local #702, was a member of Mount Vernon American Legion Post #141 for over fifty years, a member of Masonic Lodge #31 A.F. & A.M., Ainad Shrine Temple of East St. Louis, Illinois and the Mount Vernon Elks Lodge 819 and St. Maryâ?Ts Catholic Church in Mount Vernon. VISITATION will be from 5 to 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at Hughey Funeral Home in Mount Vernon, Illinois. FUNERAL MASS OF THE RESURRECTION will be celebrated by Fr. John Iffert at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, June 2, 2011 at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois. INTERMENT will follow at Oakwood Cemetery in Mount Vernon, Illinois. MEMORIALS may be given to the St. Mary School and will be accepted at the funeral home or mailed to Hughey Funeral Home, P.O. Box 721, Mount Vernon, Illinois 62864.