Vernice Yancey

Funeral services for Vernice Yancey, 94, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 19, 2025, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. 

Mrs. Yancey passed away at 2:48 a.m., Friday, November 14, 2025, at Cedarhurst of West Plains.

She was born August 26, 1931, at Forty-Four, Arkansas, to Samuel Clay Harris and Verlin Jones Harris.  On October 1, 1947, she was married at Melbourne, Arkansas, to Robert Hayden Yancey, who preceded her in death on November 30, 2012.  Vernice attended school in Oxford, Arkansas.  She was a mother and homemaker.  When her children were old enough, Vernice became a domestic worker and worked for Bob and Vivian Drago in their home and at the funeral home for many years.  Vernice loved cooking, sewing and most of all, being a mother and grandmother.  Mrs. Yancey was a member of the Next Step Seventh-day Adventist Church of West Plains. 

She is survived by three children, Donald Yancey and wife, Diane, Hendersonville, North Carolina, Donna Bridges and husband, Philip, West Plains and Jo Verhelle and husband, Tim, Redlands, California; four grandchildren, Bryan Verhelle, State of Michigan, Jennifer Kramer, State of California, Holly Ford, State of Tennessee and Hillary Hunt, State of Colorado; six great-grandchildren, Rex Horne, Madelyn Hunt, Jaden Hunt, Hayden Glaze, Kozy Kramer and Cason Kramer; two sisters, Rose Wiles and Jeanette  Hollman; two brothers, Arnold Harris and Bobby Harris; and several nieces and nephews. 

Her parents, husband, one sister, Lena Faye Taylor and one brother, Carol Wayne Harris, preceded her in death.  

Burial will be in Howell Memorial Park Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to any charity of choice, and may be left at or mailed to Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, 211 W. Main St., West Plains, Missouri