Yoe, Barbara Virginia Fultz

Passed: 1987-01-23

Age: 75

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1987-02-11

Information: Barbara Virginia Fultz Yoe, 75, of Rt. 3, Martinsburg, died Jan. 23 in the Washington County Hospital, Hagertown, Md.  Born Jan. 30, 1911 in Jackson County, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin and Nellie Shinn Fultz.  She was a nursing graduate of Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in Parkersburg, having done further study at Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., and was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church, Shepherdstown.  She traveled extensively with her husband.  She lived in Japan, where she did volunteer nursing during the Korean War; the Caribbean, where she established the first blood bank in Haiti in 1958, working as a volunteer; and in South America.  Surviving are her husband, Harry W. Yoe, at home, whom she married in 1936; sons, Harry W. Yoe, Jr., Frederick Md., Robert Boyd Yoe, Hialeah, Fla., and Paul Michael Yoe, Raleigh, N. C.; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Fultz, and a sister, Ivy Fultz.  Memorial services were held at Trinity Episcopal Church, Sheperdstown, with the Rev. G. T. Schramm officiating.  Burial was private.  Arrangements were made by the Brown Funeral Home.    *She graduated from Union High School 1930. Her mother was daughter of Abe Shinn.  ( Ada Ruth Sayre )