The Goldendale Sentinel, Goldendale, WA., March 24, 1954, page 10
"Lyle News"

     C.S. Yokum, who had been seriously ill in Skyline hospital, passed away Sunday morning. Funeral services were held at Gardner Funeral Home in White Salmon Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Burial was in the Balch cemetery at Lyle.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., March 25, 1954, page 3

CHARLES S. YOKUM BURIED WEDNESDAY

     Lyle (special) Funeral services for Charles Slader Yokum, 80, of Lyle, were held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, at Gardner's Funeral Home in White Salmon. Reverend George P. George of the W.S. Methodist church officiated. Interment was in the Balch cemetery near Lyle.
     Mr. Yokum was born Nov. 30, 1873 in Peoria, Illinois. He spent his boyhood in Missouri. In 1901 he was married at Page, Nebraska to Laura Bell Walker who died in April 1942. They homesteaded near Hurdsfield, North Dakota until 1913 when he took over a trucking business at Mcclusky, N.D.
     In 1943 they moved to Spokane. A year later they moved to Lyle. In August 1945 he married Mrs. Martha E. Dymond who died March 7, 1953. Mr. Yokum expired at Skyline hospital last Sunday, March 21.
     Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Lois Lovina Pierce of Raymond and Mrs. Marjory Glendola Lemon of Spokane; one brother J.D. Yokum of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; four step-children, Jim Staack of Long Beach, Cal., E.P. Staack of Glenwood; Mrs. Muriel West of Lyle and Frank Staack of The Dalles, and one grandchild.
     Pall bearers were Homer James, James Curl, Marshall Hamm, Fay McNabb, William White and Leonard Jerycke.

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