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Note: N SHE WAS 19 YEARS OF AGE AND AFTER THAT SHE MOVED TO ATLANTA, GA. SHE WAS THE OLDEST OF THREE CHILDREN. SHE MOVED TO ATLANTA AND LIVED AT THE CHURCH'S HOME FOR GIRLS AND FIRST WORKED AT KRESS'S STORE LOCATED THEN ON WHITEHALL ST. IT IS NOW CLOSED. SHE THEN WENT TO WORK FOR CLUETT & PEABODYMFG. CO. ON MURPHY AVE. IT IS NOW ARROW MFG CO. WINNIE MET RAY DERRICK THRUGERTRUDE KEATON, WITH WHOM SHE WORKED AND THEY MARRIED IN 1930. WINNIE QUIT WORK AFTER SHE WAS MARRIED AND NEVER WORKED AGAIN OUTSIDE THE HOME EXCEPT FORA SHORT WHILE AFTER HER CHILDREN WERE GROWN. SHE WAS A MISICIAN AND PLAYED BOTH PIANO AND ORGAN. SHE WORKED IN PTA, CHURCH, TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL & CARED FOR HER MAMA THE LAST FOUR YEARS SHE LIVED. SHE LIVED AT 3336 BUTNER RD., SW ATLANTA GA UNTIL 1994 WHEN SHE WENT TO STAY WITH HER DAUGHTER IN JONESBORO, IN 1995 SHE WENT TO HAPEVILLE PERSONAL CARE HOME AND 1996 SHE WAS TRANSFERED TO PHOENIX NURSING CENTER ON REX RD., REX GA AND DIED THERE ON OCT 15, 1996. MAMA WAS A LIFELONG BAPTIST. SHE WENT TO CHURCH WITH DADDY FOR MANY YEARS TO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SHE NEVER GAVE UP HER LOVE FOR THE BAPTIST CHURCH AND EVENTUALLY THEY RETURNED TO THE BAPTIST CHURCH. IF YOU WERE NOT A BAPTIST YOU WERE LOST WITHOUT REDEMPTION. MAMA NEVER FORGAVE ME FOR BECOMING AN EPISCOPALIAN. MAMA ALWAYS TRIED TO KEEP WE THREE GIRLS ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW, EVEN WHEN WE DID NOT WANT TO BE THERE. THIS CONTINUED EVEN AFTER WE WERE GROWN. MAMA WAS NOT AN EASY PERSON TO KNOW OR EVEN LIKE. SHE WAS NOT A WARM PERSON AND WAS A VERY NEGATIVE PERSON. SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD SAY WHATEVER SHE WANTED TOO AND YOU WERE NOT TO BE HURT OR GET MAD. IF YOU DID NOT SPEAK TO HER IN SOFT QUITE LOVING TONES SHE GOT MAD. SOMETIME SHE JUST GOT MAD AND YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT YOU HAD SAID OR DONE. LIFE COULD HAVE MADE HER THAT WAY TIMES WERE TOUGH WHEN SHE GREW UP AS SHE WAS BORN IN 1907. MAMA DID NOT LIKE TO GO AND WANTED DADDY AND US TO STAY HOME TOO. SHE DID NOT BELIEVE IN MOVIES, BOWLING, SKATING, DANCING, PLAYING CARDS-EVEN OLD MAIDS & GO FISH, OR MUCH OF ANYTHING ELSE. SHE DID GO TO CHURCH AND WE ALWAYS HAD TO GO ALSO. DID NOT HURT US ANY OF COURSE. SOMETIME I BELIEVED THAT SHE WAS JUST BORN THAT WAY. I TRIED FOR YEARS TO GET HER DR. TO GIVE HER AN ANTI-DEPRESSANT BUT HE WOULD NOT. MAMA MOST LIKELY WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN IT. SHE ALWAYS SAID, "IF I CHANGE I WOULD NOT BE ME". MAMA WAS DEMANDING AND KEPT US MOVING WAITING ON HER. IF WE DID NOT DO WHAT SHE WANTED, DADDY WAS TOLD AND WE SURE DID IT THE NEXT TIME AS WE DID NOT WANT DADDY TALKING TO US AGAIN. MAMA TOOK CARE OF US WHEN WE COULD NOT TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES AND LOVED US IN THE ONLY WAY SHE KNEW HOW. SHE NEVER LET US FORGET SHE WAS THE MAMA. SHE WAS A DEVOTED DAUGHTER, SISTER, MAMA AND GRANDMA. WINNIE LIZZIE YARBROUGH WIFE OF FOREST RAY DERRICK MOTHER OF WINNIE MARLENE DERRICK SHIRLEY RUTH DERRICK ANNA ELIZABETH DERRICK DAUGHTER 1998
Note: WINNIE WAS RAISED IN TYRONE, GA. FAYETTE COUNTY. HER DADDY WADE HAMPTON YARBROUGH DIED WHE
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