Yates, Elmer Elias
Navy Ship’s cook 3rd class

Elmer Elias Yates, age 27, from Eureka County Palisade, Nevada .

Parents: Elias and Lizzie Larsen Yates

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.

Source: National Archives, Box Elder News Journal (1941), Salt Lake Journal (1941)