Janet E. Mills Yerkes passed away peacefully on Sunday, November 1 at Milford Center. She was 89.
Janet was the daughter of the late Lloyd E. and Henrietta “Etta” Mills. She worked at the Milford High School cafeteria for five years before going to work at Dollar General in Milford where she was a manager for ten years. She was also a Tupperware saleswoman for many years.
Janet was a member of Prospect Church in Harrington. She loved to crochet and enjoyed taking spur of the moment rides with her family to Pennsylvania to see the leaves changing in the fall. Family was the most important thing to Janet, and she loved watching her grandchildren’s sporting events.
She will be missed by her two sons, Townsend Yerkes and his wife, Rochelle and Duane “Stoney” Yerkes and his wife, Crystal. Janet’s grandchildren, Tyler Yerkes and his wife Nicki; Brandon Yerkes and his wife, Tara; and Lauren Lowery and her husband, Taylor, also survive her along with four great grandchildren, Brice Yerkes, Briggs Yerkes, Nora Lowery, Rose Lowery and her daughter-in-law, Karen Yerkes.
Janet was preceded in death by her husband, Theodore “Ted” Yerkes; a son, Lloyd Yerkes, two brothers, Edgar Mills Jr. and Donald Mills; and two sisters, Lorraine West and Ruth Ann Willey.
A celebration of life will be held Sunday, November 22 at 2 PM at the Lofland Funeral Home, 102 Lakeview Avenue, Milford where friends my visit with the family from 1 to 2 PM.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the Houston Fire Company, PO Box 122, Houston DE 19954.
Letters of condolences may be left for the family at the Lofland McKnatt funeral home website.
