Location: H-Garrett

Born: July 5, 1924 Bosque County, Texas

Died: January 31, 2013 Waco, McLennan County, Texas

Daughter of J. L. “Dutch” Prause and Vera Bryant Prause

Wife of John Philip Langan and James Rex Yarbrough

Parents:
J Light (Dutch) Prause (1896 – 1983)
Vera E Bryant Prause (1900 – 1999)

Spouse:
James Rex Yarbrough (1925 – 2004)

Children:
Vera
Catherine Langan Hazelwood (1953 – 2007)

Naida Prause Yarbrough, 88, of Waco, passed away Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at a local nursing home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4, at the
Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Terry Wilkerson officiating.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3, at the Bellmead Funeral Home.
Burial will be at China Spring Cemetery.

Naida Gardenia was born on a near-2000 acre ranch near Valley Mills Texas, to the late J.L. “Dutch” Prause and Vera Bryant Prause. She spent her childhood heading cattle and sheep for her father and mother. Old timers called her the best cowgirl riding cutting horses that they had ever seen.

She attended China Spring Schools and graduated from Waco High School in 1941. Naida graduated from Four-C College in Waco and was attending Baylor University when World War II broke out. She completed a course in Army Rifle training in the Waco Business Girls Corps during this time.
Naida had loved flying from the age of ten and at 16, began her training at
Richfield Airport under instructions of the late Davis Speight. During World War II, she was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps being stationed in West Texas and New Mexico.

Naida married 1st Lt. John Philip Langan of Rochester, N.Y. and they had two daughters, Patricia Rose and Vera Catherine. While living in New York, Naida completed two more years at State Universities of New York in Plattsburg and Geneva. After eight years, she returned to Texas, completing 37 years of employment with three years at General Tire & Rubber, and Texas Department of Transportation with 24 years as an Engineering Technician.

In 1957, Naida married James Rex Yarbrough, of Waco, and they had a son, Rodney Earle Yarbrough. She and Rex loved flying and traveling and
were fortunate enough to have traveled most of the better known countries of the world plus the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Naida was known as a very caring person and loved people. She always had a smile or hug for everyone she met.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, John P. Langan; her second husband, Rex, of 47 years; a daughter, Vera Catherine Langan Hazelwood;
sister, Mavis Reible; and brothers, Dallas, Danny, and Sammy Prause.

Survivors include her daughter, Patricia Langan Aldridge, of College Station; son, Rodney E. Yarbrough, of Waco; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; sisters, Vera Alvena Trull Pocock, and Gloria Helleson and
husband, Jimmie; brothers, David Prause and wife, Barbara Jean, James Prause and wife, Nelda; other relatives and many friends.