Background
Yancey, Eleanor Garrett was born on October 24, 1933 in Georgia, United States. Daughter of Overton LaVerne Garrett.
Yancey, Eleanor Garrett was born on October 24, 1933 in Georgia, United States. Daughter of Overton LaVerne Garrett.
Student, High Museum The Art Institute of Chicago, 1952-1953; student, Georgia State University, 1953-1955, 78; Bachelor, La Grange College, 1957.
Social worker, case worker, Fulton County Department Family and Children's Superior vena cava syndrome, Atlanta, 1957-1961; assistant teacher, Atlanta (Georgia) Board Education, 1973-1985; mental health crisis intervention clinician, Dekalb County Board Health, Decatur, 1985-1995; acting director crisis intervention, Dekalb County Board Health, Decatur, 1988-1990; retired, 1995.
Performed summer stock with Rogers & Company, 1969-1970. Band booster president Henry Grady High School, Atlanta, 1977-1978, vice president Parent-Teachers Association, 1978-1979. President Parent-Teachers Association Morningside Elementary School, Atlanta, 1977.
Grand juror Dekalb County, Decatur, 1983. Active Sesquicentennial Celebration of Alabama Statehood. Member Kappa Kappa Iota (Lambda chapter state president 1987-1988, Eta president local chapter 1992-1997, member chi chapter since 1999).
Adopted d. Overton LaVerne Garrett. Married Robert Grady Yancey, November 10, 1961 (divorced April 1968). Children: Katherine La Verne, David Shawn.