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DATE: Thursday, March 16, 1995               TAG: 9503160325
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: SMITHFIELD                         LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

JOHN H. YEOMAN SR.

John H. Yeoman, Sr., 68, retired chief petty officer, died March 14, 1995.

A native of Wilmington, North Carolina, he was a member of Brown's AME Church.

Survivors are his wife, Jerrene Cuffey Yeoman of Smithfield; 1 daughter: Joahn Y. Brown of Smithfield; 1 son: retired Major John H. Yeoman, II, state of Kuwait; 3 sisters: Louise Y. Gore and Marion Y. Morris both of Wilmington, NC, Catheryne Y. Arledge of Greensboro, NC; 3 brothers: Perry O. Yeoman of Leland, NC, Lawrence R. Yeoman of Greensboro, NC, Alexander Yeoman of Hampton; 5 grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held 1 p.m. Saturday at Brown's AME Church, Smithfield, by Rev. Queen E. Snell. Burial with military rites will be in Emmanuel Baptist Church Cemetery.

Arrangements by Pretlow and Chapman Funeral Home, Smithfield.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB