{"id":1311898,"date":"2019-06-27T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/walter-w-yeakel-november-28-1932-june-23-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-06-27T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T00:04:01","slug":"walter-w-yeakel-november-28-1932-june-23-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/walter-w-yeakel-november-28-1932-june-23-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter W. Yeakel (November 28, 1932 \u2014 June 23, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walter Yeakel was born November 28, 1932, in Silt, Colorado. He passed away at The Colorado State Veterans Home June 23, 2019.<\/p>\n

He was the fourth child of David Yeakel & Mollie Wagner-Yeakel.<\/p>\n

Walter attended elementary school in Antlers and attended High School in Rifle, Colorado.<\/p>\n

Walter served in the United States Army from 1954-1955, as a cook in the Korean War.<\/p>\n

Walter jockeyed race horses for his dad as a youngster. Then turned to calf & steer roping and competed in many rodeos in the Roaring Fork Valley and beyond.<\/p>\n

Walter married Ardis McGraw November 18, 1956, at Garfield Creek, and together they raised 5 children.<\/p>\n

Walter worked at Thompson Creek coal mine until it closed in 1966. Then he was a horseshoer (Farrier) for a majority of his adult working life. Then returned to his first love of horses and cattle ranching until retirement.<\/p>\n

Walter became a resident at The Colorado State Veterans Home on August 18, 2014.<\/p>\n

Walter is preceded in death by his parents David & Mollie Yeakel, 2 brothers Dick & John, and his sister Mary Mobley.<\/p>\n

Walter is survived by his wife of 62 years, Ardis Yeakel of Silt; his 5 children, Susan Kawata (Randy), Evans, CO, Tom Yeakel (Nellie), Silt, CO, Colleen Hoeper (Bill), Centennial, CO, Holly Parker (Karl) Rifle, CO, and Patty Yeakel-Nordlie (Kenny), Rifle, CO; 3 brothers, George, Jerry & Bob; 6 grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Walter will be missed by all!!<\/p>\n

There will be no funeral services. Cremation has already taken place.<\/p>\n

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Walter Yeakel was born November 28, 1932, in Silt, Colorado. He passed away at The Colorado State Veterans Home June 23, 2019. He was the fourth child of David Yeakel & Mollie Wagner-Yeakel. Walter attended elementary school in Antlers and attended High School in Rifle, Colorado. Walter served in the United States Army from 1954-1955, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 17:41:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}