Sixth Generation

1203. Dallas Gaither YOUNT was born on 11 May 1909 in Catawba County, North Carolina. He appeared in the census in 1910.¹⁹²³ Dallas age ten months old at this census taken on 27 April 1910 He died on 20 March 2009 at the age of 99 in Pallative Care & Hospice of Catawba Valley, Newton, North Carolina.¹⁹⁴⁵ Dallas was buried in St. John's Lutheran Church (MO Synod) Cemetery, Conover, Catawba County, NC. His obituary appeared as follows: Conover - Dallas Gaither Yount, 99, of Conover, died Friday, March 20, 2009, at Palliative CareCenter & Hospice of Catawba Valley. Born May 11, 1909, in Catawba County, he was a son of the late Dallas Alexander Yount and Laura Drum Yount. He was a retired farmer, where he served on the Farmers Home Administration (FHA) and the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Services (ASCS), and also was a past member of the Conover City Planning Board. He was a longtime member of St. John's Lutheran Church, where he also served as an Elder, on the church council and on the building committee at the St. John's Lutheran Church that burned in 1950 and the rebuilding of the church that burned in 2001, and also was the oldest living member at the time of his death. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 68 years, Willie Marie Baker Yount; sisters, Anna Cline, Mary White, Claudia Seitz, Eva Little, Ruth Moose, Lela Smith, Violet White and Sue Hewitt; and brothers, Oren Yount and Carl Yount. Survivors include daughters, Ruth Rockett and husband, Dwight, and Carolyn Keisler and husband, Charles, of Conover; sons, Hugh Dallas Yount and wife, Camilla, and Paul Gaither Yount and wife, Willie Pearl, of Conover; grandchildren, Nelson Yount, Conrad Yount, Myron Yount, Tim Keisler, Tina Propst, Paula Teague, David Yount, Dana Drum, Kathy Harris and Allison Albert; and great-grandchildren, Adam Keisler, Corey Keisler, Emily Yount, Ryan Yount, Andrew Yount, Victoria Yount, Collin Yount, Makayla Yount, Laura Yount, Lauren Yoder, Jennifer Yoder, Kacy Yount, Jana Yount, Abby Yount, Reece Yount, Sarah Drum, Daniel Drum, Rebekah Drum, Joshua Harris, Benjamin Harris, Jacob Albert and Abigail Albert; and sisters-in-law, Lorene B. Hunsucker of Conover and Irene B. Campbell of Newton. A Service of Remembrance will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Conover, with the Revs. Scott Johnson and Anton Lagoutine officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight Monday, March 23, 2009, at Drum Funeral Home in Conover. Pallbearers honoring Mr. Yount will be Nelson Yount, Conrad Yount, Myron Yount, David Yount, Tim Keisler, Frank Propst, Derek Teague, Robby Drum, Dave Harris and Donnie Albert. Memorials may be sent to St. John's Lutheran Church, Building Fund, 2126 St. John's Church Road, Conover, N.C., 28613. The Yount family has entrusted funeral arrangements to Drum Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Conover. [Published in the Hickory Daily Record on 3/23/2009]

Walla "Willie" Marie BAKER (private).

Dallas Gaither YOUNT and Walla "Willie" Marie BAKER had the following children: