Jeffery Patrick Yates (Age 61) of Temple Hills, Maryland.

On Sunday, February 24, 2019, Jeffery Patrick Yates quietly transitioned from this life to eternal rest at Future Care Pine View Nursing Home in Clinton, Maryland.

On September 15, 1957, Jeffery was born in Bryans Road, Maryland to the late James Bernard and Dorothy Yates. As a teenage boy, Jeffery sustained a life altering injury and as a result he became a long term care resident.

Jeffery leaves to cherish his memory, one son, Donnell Dorsey, three sisters, Debra Whitehurst, Martha Swailes and Patricia Yates, six brothers, James, Calvin, Gonza, Curtis, Joseph and Theodore, five aunts, Alfreda Wilson, Alberta Key, Katie Swailes, Gladys Woodland and Margaret Davis, one uncle, Charles Swailes and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Viewing, 10:00 am, until time of Service, 11:00 am, Saturday March 9, 2019, in the Chapel of Thornton Funeral Home, P.A., 3439 Livingston Road, Indian Head, Maryland 20640.

Interment, Fort Lincoln Cemetery, 3401 Bladensburg Road, Brentwood, Maryland 20722.