[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: John Yates
- From: "J & L Ealy" <jhelee929@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:48:04 -0400
John was a passionate voice for all dog people, he will be greatly missed.
Jim
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] John Yates
> shared by Peggy
>
> 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.
>
> After losing 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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