Martha M. Yates

BOISSEVAIN, Va. — Martha M. Yates, 76, of 115 Cook St., Boissevain, VA 24606, died at her home Friday, June 13, 2008. Born in Anawalt, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late John H. and Belle Smith Sadler. She was a senior companion employed by the Appalachian Agency Service. She was a homemaker and a member of the Pocahontas Harvest Time Church, Pocahontas, Va.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by: Husband, Earnest K. Yates, three brothers, and one sister.Survivors: Eight children: Barbara Rider and husband, Bud, Pocahontas, Va., Bonnie Williams, Abbs Valley, Va., Diana Murphy and husband, Porter, Tazewell, Va., Kay Stallard and husband, Roy, Abbs Valley, Va., Ernest Yates, Princeton, W.Va., Kathy Holcomb, and husband, Wayne, Memphis, Tenn., Theresa Crotty and husband, Darrell, Raleigh, N.C., and Donald Yates and wife, Shirley, Clayton, N.C.; two brothers: Stacy Sadler and wife, Shirley, Brushfork, W.Va., and Johnny Sadler and wife, Becky, Camden, S.C.; three sisters: Beulah Irons, Naples, Fla., Betty Barnes and husband Chuck, Beverly Hills, Fla., and Judy Griffith, Miamisburg, Ohio; nineteen grandchildren; twenty-two great-grandchildren and ten stepgrandchildren.Graveside services will be conducted on Monday (today), June 16, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at the Grandview Memory Gardens, Bluefield, Va., with the Rev. Danny Cornwell officiating. Friends may call on Monday (today) from 11:30 - 12:30 p.m. at the Rodriguez Pocahontas Funeral Home, Pocahontas, Va.Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.Rodriguez Pocahontas Funeral Home, Pocahontas, Va. is serving the Yates family.For more information, or to have the funeral home pass along your condolences, visit www.RodriguezFuneral.com