Funeral Service: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Mid-Cities Church, 113 Skyline Rd., Grand Prairie, 75051. Interment: Moore Memorial Gardens. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Moore Funeral Home, 1219 N. Davis Dr., Arlington, 76012
Yantes was born February 10, 1923 in Danville, Kentucky to Fred and Lucy Shields. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and honorably served for several years during World War II, where he was awarded his Purple Heart.
Yantes married Geraldine Stout and together they had eight children. When Geraldine passed, he married Roberta Lamb.
He was a shipping clerk for Adler Wool Socks in Cincinnati and then moved to Texas in 1973 where he worked as a custodian in Irving and Grand Prairie School Districts.
Yantes loved collecting DVDs and was a huge Western film, John Wayne, and Audie Murphy fan.
Yantes was preceded in death by his parents Fred and Lucy Shields; first wife, Geraldine Shields; son, Robert Shields; daughters, Barbara Gilbreath and Vickie Chesko; and grandson, Chris Jester.
Survivors: wife, Roberta Shields; children, Margaret Jennings, Pamela Haynes, Katherine Bennett, Gerald Shields, and Charles Shields; step-daughters, Ellen Webster, Dorothy Kegley, and Rosie Martin; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great great-grandchildren.
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