This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YANCEY, JANSEN, GREENWALT, STEVENSON, WITTIG, HUFFMAN, CHILDS, LENSE, BENJAMIN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JIB.2ACI/12498 Message Board Post: YANCEY, Jack Lee, died Aug 18, 2002 YANCEY, JANSEN, GREENWALT, STEVENSON, WITTIG, HUFFMAN, CHILDS, LENSE, BENJAMIN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Carole Lynn (MOHNEY) CARR, Volunteer Transcriber Transcribed from an original newspaper clipping from the “Sturgis Daily Journal, “ which serves the St. Joseph County, Michigan area. Copy provided by the Sturgis Library, Sturgis, Michigan. http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/spl.html Listed on this site are volunteers to do look-ups, check it out to see if they have what you are looking for. http://members.tripod.com/~tfred/stjolookups.html >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> McDonough, Ga.; Jack Lee YANCEY, age 78, of McDonough, Ga., passed away Aug. 18, 2002, at the Henry Medical Center. Mr. YANCEY was born June 20, 1924, in Sturgis, Mich., to the late John Hamton YANCEY and the late Violet Ruth JANSEN YANCEY. He was preceded in death by a grandson, John Douglas GREENWALT. A 1942 graduate of Sturgis High School, he volunteered for the Army Air Corps in 1943 while attending the University of Michigan where he played in the marching band. He was promoted to First Lieutenant at 19 while at Yale University, before being stationed at Lowery Air Force Base in Denver, Colo., with later duty assignments in Florida and Utah. Later he served in the Air Force Reserves. He returned to Sturgis and worked for the Kirsch Company, where he met and married the former Jean STEVENSON of White Pigeon, Mich., in 1947. They divorced in 1979. After WW II, he studied at Northrop Engineering in California before returning to Michigan where he farmed and co-owned the Red McGowan Appliance Store in White Pigeon. In 1962 he moved to Fort Collins, Colo., where he worked for the U.S. Postal Service until his retirement in 1988. In 1989 he married Allene Marie WITTIG YANCEY in Kansas City, Mo. In 1996 they moved to McDonough, Ga., where he was a member of the American Legion and attended Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Stockbridge. Survivors include; his wife; daughters and sons-in-law, Lizabeth and Dean GREENWALT of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Sara and John HUFFMAN of Winchester, Va.; step-children, David BENJAMIN of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Debbie LENSE of McDonough; three grandchildren; a great-granddaughter; a sister and brother-in-law, Betty and Charles CHILDS of Plymouth, Mich.; and two nieces and a nephew. Memorial services for Jack Lee YANCEY will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at the Lord of Life Lutheran Church. Pastor Kent Fuqea will officiate. Military interment services will follow at 2 p.m. in Eastlawn Memorial Fund in Cheyenne, Wyo., or to the charity of one’s choice in memory of Mr. YANCEY. Arrangements are being handled by the Haisten Funeral Home of McDonough, 770-914-8833 END