Patrick Yetter Obituary

    Patrick Reed Yetter, formerly of Lake City, died Saturday, April 29, at his home in Camas, Wash., at the age of 65 years. May his memory be blessed.
    He was born on Sunday, Nov. 4, 1951, in Vinton, Iowa. The Yetter family moved a lot while the kids were growing up, but settled in Lake City when Pat was in high school. Pat was active at Lincoln High School; he played football, participated in the all-school play, sang in the choir, and was an officer on the student council.
    The summer following his graduation from high school, Pat worked on the Milwaukee Railroad. In the fall he began attending Moorhead State University, where he majored in sociology, was a member of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, and met and married his wife Christine.
    The couple moved to Iowa after graduation where Pat worked for A.C. Nielsen as a supervisor and then at Migrant Action Program as a grantsman. When their first-born son was a year old, Pat and Chris felt the powerful pull of the Rocky Mountains, so they left the farm in Iowa and moved to Colorado where Pat began working for Moore Business Forms as a salesman and later a regional manager in Denver. Fourteen years later, just before their second son was born, Pat accepted a transfer to Moore’s Portland, Ore. office where he worked as a regional manager for both the Portland and Alaska territories for another 11 years. During his tenure with Moore, he participated in four achievement clubs, and in 1997 his region was recognized as the top region within Moore North America.
    Pat enjoyed sports and grew up playing basketball and football. As an adult, he coached his son’s YMCA basketball team and managed a junior football league in Colorado. He also liked to hunt pheasants, ducks, and geese. Above all, however, he loved to fish, whether it was high in the mountains of Colorado, on the mountain top in Wyoming, or at LaCamas Lake just a few minutes from home. He also enjoyed deep sea fishing in Alaska and Hawaii, but most of all he loved fishing with his brothers, sons, dad, uncle, and friends on their summer fly-in fishing trips to Canada. Pat read many fishing books, and he also collected and refinished bamboo fishing rods.
    What sustained Pat throughout his lifetime was the joy he derived from the love and support of his large, extended family and the enduring friendships of many.
    Pat is survived by his wife, Christine; two sons, Jeremy (Melissa) and Andy (Kristin); one granddaughter, Annabelle; two brothers, Bill (Elizabeth) and Chuck (Dona); sister, Barb; sister-in-law, Arna; aunt, Sally; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Pat was preceded in death by his parents, Mardell (Mardy) Virginia McGinn Yetter and Otis (Pat) Wesley Yetter, older brother, Tom, and brother-in-law, Dan Vigil.
    A service will take place at St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church in Lake City, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 27, with visitation at the church one hour prior to the service. Memorials are preferred to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are entrusted to Schleicher Funeral Home in Lake City