Rees Glenn YOW

1917 - 2014  (96 years)

• Name	Rees Glenn YOW
  Birth	15 Oct 1917	Poteet, Atascosa, Texas, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  	at 3 p.m.
  Gender	Male
  Residence	17 Oct 1940	Poteet, Atascosa, Texas, USA   [2]
  Census	1 May 1950	Atascosa County, Texas, USA   [4]
  	Justice Precinct 8
  Religion	Baptist
  Occupation	Farmer
  Death	26 Apr 2014	Poteet, Atascosa, Texas, USA   [3]
  Burial	2 May 2014	Rutledge Cemetery, Poteet, Atascosa, Texas, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I9726	Dyal and Speckels
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2022

  
  

  Family	Marjorie MCDONALD,   b. 13 Dec 1928, Poteet, Atascosa, Texas, USA d. 11 Sep 1993, Atascosa County, Texas, USA (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	9 Feb 1946	Bexar County, Texas, USA   [5]
  	by A. D. Bruton
  Children	+ 1. Living
  Family ID	F6896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  “Rees was born in Poteet, Texas on Oct. 15, 1917 to James Wesley Yow and Minnie McCullough Yow. Rees rode his horse four miles to Leming, Texas, to attend school. There he learned to play the fiddle, an instrument he inherited from his mother’s first husband, Urich Childers, who died at an early age… All his life he farmed his mother’s land and leased land from Rosie Meyers and E. T. Page Sr. In 1945 he married Marjorie McDonald, the best decision he ever made, according to him. They had two daughters, Janice and Neda. Rees loved Marjorie, children and music. Sonny Eichman, Wayne Norment, Bill Pennington and Rees formed the ‘Baptist Dance Band’ that played many free benefits including Texas Day for the Poteet Elementary School for 20 years. He judged the ‘Old Fiddlers Contest’ at the Poteet Strawberry Festival for over forty years. He was an original stockholder in the Atascosa National Bank and a member of the First Baptist Church of Poteet for fifty-six years where his father was its first minister and where Rees unveiled its historical marker in 2014.”

  
  

• Sources

  [S220] Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), File No. 44108. [S1582] Ancestry.com, Various sources, (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), The National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; WWII Draft Registration Cards for Texas, 10/16/1940 - 03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 1684. [S3431] Hurley Funeral Home, In Memory of Rees Glenn Yow. [S4072] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1950, Atascosa County, Texas, ED 7-28, p. 26, line 24. [S71] Vol. 94, p. 99, No. 168090.