Vivian Murryl Stevens Yates-Shelton, an 83-year-old Trenton resident, died on Wednesday morning, Sept. 24, 2014 at her home.
Funeral services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014 at Resthaven Mortuary of Trenton. Burial will follow in Resthaven Memorial Gardens, north of Trenton.
A visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m., until service time on Saturday.
Mrs. Yates-Shelton was born in the home northeast of New Hampton on Dec. 25, 1930, the daughter of Charles Henry and Josie Murryl Martin Stevens. She attended a country grade school, then Mt. Moriah High School. She joined the Methodist church at Mt. Moriah, where she taught Sunday school. She later transferred her membership to the New Hampton Methodist Church and then she transferred to Wesley United Methodist Church in Trenton in 1994.
She was married at Cainsville on July 20, 1947 to Wilbur James Yates. They moved to Jefferson, IA in December of 1949, living there for eight years. They returned in 1957 to New Hampton, where they operated the telephone service and were blessed with a daughter Joyce Renae. Over the years she had many occupations, including a restaurant cook, hospital dietician and telephone service operator as well as running her own home day care for 20 years. In 1959 Wilbur was stricken with polio and confined to a wheelchair. He died on April 11, 1983. On May 1, 1994 she was remarried to Roy Rex Shelton and he preceded her in death on Jan. 10, 2005.
She enjoyed church hymns as well as country music, fishing, bowling, gardening and spending Sunday morning listening to local church sermons on the radio. In later years she also enjoyed making quilts for family and friends. She especially enjoyed having her great-grandchildren stay with her on weekends.
Surviving relatives include her daughter, Joyce Clover and her husband Robert of Trenton; a sister, Vera Ewing of Oceanside CA; a brother Virgil Stevens of Blythedale; two granddaughters, Christina Rulo and her husband, Tony and Janna Burkeybile and her husband, David both of Trenton; a step-grandson, Matt Clover of Rifle, CO; and 11 great-grandchildren, Lindsey, Jonathan, Nathan, Jamie, Jakensey, Ryan, Iridessa, Cody, Kaeleb, Emma and Sidney.
Those preceding her in death include her parents; husbands; a brother, Verl Stevens; seven half-brothers and sisters, Wille, Clarence, Russel, Crystal, Luella, Eleanor and Deloris.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association and left at or mailed to the funeral home.
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