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May 31, 2000
Los Altos Town Crier [California]

Chester 'Chet' Wallace Yancey
Chester "Chet" Wallace Yancey of Mountain View died May 15 after a seven-week struggle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A native of Arkansas, he was 77.

Mr. Yancey was in the U.S. Army and served in combat in the South Pacific during World War II. After the war, he returned to the Midwest where he attended Draughons Business College.

He later established a career as a lay minister, motivational speaker, founder of a national nutrition products company and worked as a real estate industry executive.

He was president of the PTA and supported his church, the Stanford University Parents' Club and the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Memorial services were held.