LEATRICE YOKAY GREASER, WHO HAS COVID, TO BE RELEASED TO TYGART CENTER IN FAIRMONT
Leatrice Yokay Greaser hospitalized with covid
Leatrice Yokay Greaser, Class of 1950, is in a Fairmont hospital. She got covid.
Julie Ankrom, after talking to Leatrice’s
nephews John and Stephen Yokay, and tells me “they say Leatrice probably will be
moved to Tygart Center nursing care today, one of two facilities in Fairmont (1539
Country Club Road).
“She had covid. Hopefully, she is
recovering now.
“My Mom (Mary Ann Carbone Ankrom) is
going to talk to Steven and we will keep you informed of any news we get.
“By the way, my father James Ankrom
worked as a typesetter at the Fairmont Times-West Virginian. He passed away in
2009 while living in Normantown, West Virginia (which is on U.S. Route 33
southwest of Glenville).”
If you want to send Leatrice a get-well
card, it would be:
Leatrice Greaser
Tygart Center
159 Country Club Road
Fairmont, WV 26554
Julie says her mother, Mary Ann Ankrom (nee Carbone) formerly of Fairmont, "has been visiting Leatrice and talking to Sister Stella Cronauer of a Catholic church in that area.
"Sister Stella got some information on this for my mother since the hospital would not tell us anything and they allowed her to come in and see Leatrice. So my mother has talked to Leatrice.”
John Yokay’s son, Steven, once came from Maryland to drive Leatrice home from the hospital after her weeks-long stays for medical and rehab care and set up a hospital bed ln her home.
Steven is a paralegal at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The Kathryn Grayson of Monongah High, as I call Leatrice because of her great singing voice during my MHS days, has been in and out of hospitals year after year in the last decade.
I visited Leatrice at her Fairmont home a few years back and we have phoned each other regularly.
For those too young to remember, Kathryn Grayson was an opera singer who acted in movies with Mario Lanza, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Mickey Rooney and was in “Show Boat” (1951) and “Kiss Me, Kate” (1953).
Leatrice recalls “climbing up that hill” to Fairmont radio station WMMN (MMN for Senator Matthew M. Neely, who got WMMN a favorable spot in the middle of the dial) with Mary Jo Forte Richards, Class of 1948, when the two of them sang (Leatrice) and played the piano (Mary Jo) with their own radio show.
Mary Jo later moved to Las Vegas. Her parents were Patsy Forte, who ran the drug store in the center of the Monongah business district, and Mary Romino Forte.
Leatrice had been divorced from Bill Talkington for 8 years when Bob Greaser showed up at her doorstep. Leatrice’s son accompanied Bob because Bob told her son, “I’ll give you my paycheck if you’ll take me to your mother.”
Bob and Leatrice were married until Bob passed away in 2013.
Leatrice’s siblings, John Yokay, Class of 1953, and Patty Yokay Maddox, Class of 1948, have passed away. John played for the 1952 state champ Monongah High football team.
Jen, daughter of Patrica Urban Utz, Class of 1950, first tipped me off about Leatrice and then Julie Ankrom gave me more-detailed information twice.
Stay tuned and hope for the best.
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