Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, May 10, 1958

YANCY M. SANDERS

BASTROP (Special) -- Yancey M. Sanders, 75, of Bastrop, died early yesterday morning in a hospital here following a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the chapel of Riser and Son's Funeral Home. Doctor Wren Causey will officiate, and internment [sic interment] will follow in the Welcome Home Cemetery.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Y. M. Sanders, Bastrop; three daughters, Mrs. Twyman Dew, Dallas, Tex.; Mrs. J. R. Lee, Bosco; Mrs. Donald Kidd, Niceville, Fla.; two sons, James M. Sanders, Bastrop, and Ellis L. Sanders, U. S. Air Force in England. Mr. Sanders is survived also by three half brothers, C. P. Sanders, Hayfork, Calif., two half-sisters, Mrs. John Hand, Fresno, Calif.; Mrs. Aubra Brown, Hayfork, Calif., and twelve grandchildren.