Frederick Wayne Yeager

Frederick Wayne Yeager, Coppell, Texas, was born August 5, 1930, in Sidney, Ohio. He was a gift of God to his parents Philip and Nellie Mae DeHaven Yeager and was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Sidney, Ohio.

Growing up Fred worked in the Yeager’s bakery that his great grandfather from Germany started in Sidney. Then he was a chief electrician in the United States Navy and was honorably discharged on August 9, 1954. He joined IBM and worked in Ohio, Kentucky, and Texas where he retired after 36 years as a service manager.

Throughout his life, he loved to go fishing as his mother would even take him out of school just to fish and he spent time fishing in the Colorado River, Port Lavaca Texas, Branson Missouri, and other small ponds closer to home. Ironically he never liked to clean or eat the fish.

For many years he would take the motor home to the Albuquerque New Mexico balloon festival. Fred could build, create, or fix anything from making work benches, tables, and steps to welding, building engines, and transmissions. In his early days, ice cream was a luxury so he enjoyed making and eating ice cream cones. Numerous hours were spent with various full size dachshunds including the most recent ones being Cody and Gus. He enjoyed the music of the Vocal Majority specifically at Christmas and singing Christmas Carols. One of his favorite songs was the “Secret of Christmas” as it’s not the things you do at Christmastime, but the Christmas things you do all year through.

He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). He supported the Salvation Army and the Battered Women’s Shelter.

Those who remain to grieve his death yet to rejoice in his eternal life in heaven with his Savior Jesus are his wife Mary Susan Yeager, four daughters: Nancy and David Stanton, Gloria and Hal Bouknight, Sally and Galen Miller, Polly and Tom Lowry, two step sons Larry and Carol McCartney, and Gary McCartney along with five grandchildren Hilary Kohlschmidt, April Miller, Thomas Miller, Reanon Sandlin, Emily McCartney and Griffen McCartney as well as five great grandchildren Vinny Kohlschmidt, Izzy Kohlschmidt, Kiera Sandlin, Xander Sandlin, and Cooper Sandlin.

If desired memorials may be made in to the VFW (heroes.vfw.org) or a charity of your choice.

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord that they may rest from their labors. The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanses us from all sin.”
A celebration of his life will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2018, at Zion Lutheran Church, 6121 E Lovers Lane, Dallas, TX 75214.

John 14:2 Let not your hearts be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.