- Date Of Birth: November 2, 1942
- Date Of Death: December 9, 2021
- State: Idaho
Delbert C. Yates, 79, of Kamiah passed away on Thursday, December 9, 2021, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Cottonwood surrounded by his family.
Delbert was born on November 2, 1942, to Kenneth and Phyllis Cargill Yates in Grangeville, Idaho. He grew up at the family place at Winona and attended Kamiah schools. He graduated from Kamiah High School in 1961. He was a 4-year letterman in football at Kamiah and also played basketball and ran track.
He married Barbara Daugherty on June 15, 1963, and they settled in Kamiah.
Delbert was a lineman from 1969 to 1983. In that job, he worked in many places in the Pacific Northwest, enjoying his time working on the towers that came off Dworshak Dam. He started Yates Glass as a part time job, moving it to full time from 1989 to 2010. He had many other jobs, including working in the woods, driving school bus and scaling logs.
