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Rees Glenn YOW

Male 1917 - 2014  (96 years)


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

    Family Marjorie MCDONALD,   b. 13 Dec 1928, Poteet, Atascosa, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Sep 1993, Atascosa County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Marriage 9 Feb 1946  Bexar County, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 
    1. [S220] Ancestry.com, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013), File No. 44108.

    2. [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.

    3. [S3431] Hurley Funeral Home, In Memory of Rees Glenn Yow.

    4. [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.

    5. [S71] Vol. 94, p. 99, No. 168090.