Reverend Billy Roberts Yeats, 82, of Silsbee, died Thursday, June 4, 2009. He was born on January 5, 1927 to John and Essie Mae Sheffield Yeats in Kirbyville, and has been a resident of the area since 1987.
Reverend Yeats was an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God for sixty years, having pastored seven churches in Southeast Texas, as well as evangelizing.
He is survived by his daughters, Joyce Drake and her husband Clyde of Sealy, Candy Drake and her husband Roy of Spurger, Billie Parnell and her husband Larry of Beaumont; ten grandchildren; twenty-two great grandchildren; brother, John Roberts Yeats, Jr. and his wife Slyvia; sister, Helen Walters and her husband Hollis of Houston. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife of sixty-one years, Evelyn Brown Yeats; and his sister, Naomi Yeats.
Funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, June 8, 2009, at First Assembly of God, Kirbyville, with burial to follow at Friendship Cemetery in Roganville, under the direction of Broussard’s, 490 Cemetery Road, Silsbee. A gathering of family and friends will be Sunday, June 7, 2009 from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the mortuary.
Memorial contributions may be made to Praise Christian Center, 8325 Walker Road, Beaumont, Texas 77708 or General Council of the Assemblies of God, 1445 North Boonville Avenue, Springfield, Missouri, 65802-1894.
