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Freda Yeager '77 July 1, 2016 3:22 PM updated: July 1, 2016 3:24 PM
Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home - Huntsville obituary
1700 Normal Park Dr.
Huntsville, TX 77340
Telephone: (936) 291-7300
Fax: (936) 291-7307
Email: belinda@shmfh.com
Dr. Freda K. Yeager
February 23, 1928 - November 8, 2004
We announce with the greatest of sadness, our loss of Dr. Freda K. Yeager, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister of 10 siblings, author, Professor, philantropist and friend. Freda Knoblett Yeager was born February 23, 1928, in Alice, Texas to Julia and Fred Knoblett. She graduated Salutatorian of Odon High School, Odon, Indiana. As an undergraduate, she received two Knobe Prize Awards for Creative Writing, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana in 1965. Huntsville, Texas became our home shortly thereafter, and she gained her M.A. in English in 1970 from Sam Houston State University. Freda joined SHSU as a Temporary Instructor in 1971, in the English Program, while attending Texas A&M University. In 1973-74, she became a tenure-track graduate faculty member at Sam Houston State University. Freda graduated as Doctor of Philosophy from Texas A&M University on May 6, 1977. Dr. Freda K. Yeager received tenure in 1977 with Sam Houston State until retiring as Professor on May 31, 1992. Freda is honored as Biographee in World Who’s Who of Women in Education, International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Personalities of America and Two Thousand Notable Americans and will long be remembered. She was the Nonfiction Editor and Business Manager of Texas Review. There is too much to list. I now must call her mother. Mother is survived by her only child, Debra Yeager Brooks and husband, Scott B. Brooks, of Huntsville, Texas. Her grandchildren are Melanie Alayne Pavelka of Huntsville, Michael Ashford Manning of Huntsville, Daniel Scott Brooks and wife, Diana Brooks of College Station. Cecile Alayne Pavelka, Tehya Shey Pavelka, Wyatt Hunter Pavelka, Brandon Manning and Audrey Elizabeth Brooks all dubbed her GG, with love. Mrs. June Love of Wichita Falls, Texas and Mrs. Cordelia Franklin of Hillsdale, Indiana, are her only surviving siblings. Mother, the words you were so meticulous with are not within my reach. I cannot begin to verbalize what you have been and what you have meant to us all. The impact you have made on so many lives has been positive and permanent. We thank you, we admire you, we honor you, and most of all, we will miss you, today, tomorrow and always. Until we meet again, we love you. Services: Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, 6 p.m. (936) 291-7300. Please come share in our celebration and sorrow.
1700 Normal Park Dr.
Huntsville, TX 77340
Telephone: (936) 291-7300
Fax: (936) 291-7307
Email: belinda@shmfh.com
Dr. Freda K. Yeager
February 23, 1928 - November 8, 2004
We announce with the greatest of sadness, our loss of Dr. Freda K. Yeager, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister of 10 siblings, author, Professor, philantropist and friend. Freda Knoblett Yeager was born February 23, 1928, in Alice, Texas to Julia and Fred Knoblett. She graduated Salutatorian of Odon High School, Odon, Indiana. As an undergraduate, she received two Knobe Prize Awards for Creative Writing, graduating Magna Cum Laude from Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana in 1965. Huntsville, Texas became our home shortly thereafter, and she gained her M.A. in English in 1970 from Sam Houston State University. Freda joined SHSU as a Temporary Instructor in 1971, in the English Program, while attending Texas A&M University. In 1973-74, she became a tenure-track graduate faculty member at Sam Houston State University. Freda graduated as Doctor of Philosophy from Texas A&M University on May 6, 1977. Dr. Freda K. Yeager received tenure in 1977 with Sam Houston State until retiring as Professor on May 31, 1992. Freda is honored as Biographee in World Who’s Who of Women in Education, International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Personalities of America and Two Thousand Notable Americans and will long be remembered. She was the Nonfiction Editor and Business Manager of Texas Review. There is too much to list. I now must call her mother. Mother is survived by her only child, Debra Yeager Brooks and husband, Scott B. Brooks, of Huntsville, Texas. Her grandchildren are Melanie Alayne Pavelka of Huntsville, Michael Ashford Manning of Huntsville, Daniel Scott Brooks and wife, Diana Brooks of College Station. Cecile Alayne Pavelka, Tehya Shey Pavelka, Wyatt Hunter Pavelka, Brandon Manning and Audrey Elizabeth Brooks all dubbed her GG, with love. Mrs. June Love of Wichita Falls, Texas and Mrs. Cordelia Franklin of Hillsdale, Indiana, are her only surviving siblings. Mother, the words you were so meticulous with are not within my reach. I cannot begin to verbalize what you have been and what you have meant to us all. The impact you have made on so many lives has been positive and permanent. We thank you, we admire you, we honor you, and most of all, we will miss you, today, tomorrow and always. Until we meet again, we love you. Services: Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home Monday, Nov. 8, 2004, 6 p.m. (936) 291-7300. Please come share in our celebration and sorrow.
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