George Howell Yeatts

George Howell Yeatts, age 90 of Asheboro, passed away on Thursday, April 10th, 2025 at Cross Road Retirement Community. His funeral service will be held at the First Baptist Church in Asheboro, on Monday, April 14th at 11am and the family will receive friends 30 minutes prior to the service. A burial will follow at 2pm at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Reidsville.

George was born in Ruffin on February 20, 1935 to the late Charlie Oregon Yeatts and Annie Mae Trammel Yeatts. He was a graduate of Bethany High School, Class of 1953 and attained the rank of Staff Sargent in the US Air Force, serving as a Radar maintenance Technician from 1955 until 1961. After his service he was employed by Philco as a Technical Representative at Bedford Air Force Station in Bedford, Va., then worked as a Computer Operator for Klopman Mills in Alta Vista, Va. After his company was purchased by Burlington Industries, he continued to work for them as a Computer Programmer and they transferred him to Asheboro. He continued to work for Burlington Industries and then he finished his career as a Computer Programmer for Klaussner Furniture, also in Asheboro.

George served as a Chaplin for the Asheboro Civitan's. He also was a member of the First Baptist Church in Asheboro where he served in various leadership capacities, as long has his health permitted him to do so. He enjoyed singing, sang in the adult worship choir and drove the bus and sang in the nursing home outreach group “Joyful Singers”. He truly loved his church and his church family!

He is survived by his beloved wife Edwina (Pug) Norman Yeatts and his niece Cheryl Fulcher Barbour, who was like a daughter to him. He is also survived by his sisters, Betty Wenger and Carolyn Allen and numerous nieces and nephews, who he loved very much!

Preceding him in death were his sisters: Ila Nichols, Catherine Chambers, Elma Yeatts and Ellen Doyle, and his brothers: Wesley Yeatts, Leonard Yeatts and Leslie Yeatts.

In lieu of flowers, Memorial donations may be made to Cross Road Retirement Community/ Memory Care Unit, 1302 Old Cox Rd, Asheboro, NC 27205 or First Baptist Church, 133 N Church St., Asheboro, NC 27203.

Pugh Funeral Home in Asheboro is serving the Yeatts family.