To our precious friend and "other Mama", Yvonne Hately...... there are so many stories from our childhood where we would run to her house and sit at the kitchen bar telling her and Gene our troubles or our secrets, and she, especially, would always have a solution... then we would calm down, and then we would laugh and laugh together! She was our treasured Mom!
She was also our confidant, for example when Jerry was kicked off the high school football team (because his coach's wife saw his brother and his friend smoking cigarettes behind the gym and reported to the coach it was Jerry smoking - not true) it was Yvonne who talked to Jerry and made him realize that he should suffer the injustice and stay in school until he graduated. Per Jerry that was the best advice he EVER had! We will miss her so much.
And we just know upon her way to Heaven she RAN to her beloved Gene, whom she has missed for such a long time now.
You rest in peace now, sweet lady.
Love, from your fans ..... Jerry and Mary Jane Ray~~~~~~~~~~