Vasta Yarbrough

Vasta Bolton Yarbrough, 89, of Bainbridge, GA, passed away Sunday, February 20, 2011 at Riverside Place. The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at First United Methodist Church with Rev. Randy Mosley officiating and will conclude in the church. Interment will be at Roselawn Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends immediately following the service at the church. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Memorial donations may be made to First United Methodist Church, P. O. Box 541, Bainbridge, GA 39818. Mrs. Yarbrough was born February 5, 1922 in Decatur County, GA, the daughter of Alonzo Joseph Bolton and Nellie Adeline Baker Bolton. She was a graduate of Pine Hill High School, Class of 1939, and Georgia State College for Women. Mrs. Yarbrough was a retired homemaker and business partner in Yarbrough Farms. She competed and judged in the American Rose Society for over 40 years. She was a faithful member of First United Methodist Church where she taught Kindergarten Sunday School for 48 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, H.L. "Homer" Yarbrough, Sr.; her brothers Graham Bolton and Joseph Bolton; her sisters, Rebecca B. Eilenberger, Mary Ann Richards, and Vera Bolton. Survivors include her son, H.L. "Butch" Yarbrough, Jr., and his wife, Beth, of Bainbridge, GA; her daughter, Leah McLain, and her husband, Tony, of Montgomery, AL; her sister, Nelle B. Whatley of Bainbridge, GA; her grandchildren, Ansley B. Yarbrough, and his wife, Meg, of Bainbridge, GA, Erin Y. Dare, and her husband, Aaron, of Panama City Beach, FL, and Meleah L. Dollar of Bainbridge, GA; her great-grandchildren, Bolton Alexander Yarbrough and John Ashton Bedsole, both of Bainbridge, GA.