[accmemberdiscussion] More on the passing of John Yates
- From: Djsdosido@xxxxxxx
- To: accmemberdiscussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:25:49 EDT
I was unaware that Walt Bebout had also passed away a few days ago (last
paragraph).
Donna & the Dosido Gang
Remlap, Alabama
Every year of dog love is worth seven years of the human stuff. (Michael
Rosen)
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Permission to crosspost:
We lost John Yates yesterday, September 15, 2009 (American Sporting Dogs
Alliance) at the age of 60 years young. He passed while in surgery to
remove a
cancerous lung. Recently he confided in friends that he did not want to be
debilitated by just having one lung, and had a premonition that he might
not be
returning home from the hospital. He leaves behind Donna, his wife of 24
years.
John was a newspaper reporter and an editor for many years and excelled in
investigative reporting. He lived in an unpopulated area of Pennsylvania
with
his wife Donna, where he worked his dogs (he had a special breeding
program for
field trial English Setters under the Eaglerock Kennels name). He also
maintained a hybridizing program for fancy day lilies, and had over 15,000
of
them planted in his fields. John once told a friend that he bred both day
lilies
and dogs to make the world a more beautiful place. A man truly talented in
diverse ways, he was a published poet and author, and during his youth even
played in a touring blues band. He relished life in the out-of-doors,
spending
two years before his marriage in a remote region in Alaska, and then, just
after
his marriage, several years on a ranch in a wild corner of Montana.
John loved dogs, loved the people who were willing to understand how bad
government regulations and animal radicals stances were and are...and was a
voice which at times was loud and abrasive but always spoke for the same
end,
the safekeeping of animal ownership. No one loved his dogs more, or could
understand any dog better than he; and there did not exist a dog in the
world
that would not be his best friend upon first meeting. His great love for
dogs -
and the people who owned them - were the impetus for his founding of the
American Sporting Dog Alliance, a proud voice for the dog owning community.
John was always willing to answer questions and gave his advice
generously. A
friend of John's said when hearing of his death said that she realized
`how many
questions she had yet to ask him that will always now remain unspoken.' I
think
we will all sadly realize just that in the coming months and years.
Loosing Walter Bebout on Saturday (he retired in November from 2 1/2 years
as
the AKC Director of Canine Legislation ) in a traffic accident on his way
to
judge the BIS at a Kansas show, John Yates's passing is a double blow for
the
dog world.
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