Todd: Yeary's compassion served him well as prisoner of war
Joe Todd Historian With COVID-19 precautions in place, historian Joe Todd has been unable to conduct interviews with veterans. This is story is based on an interview with veteran and former prisoner of war Edwin Curtis Yeary, which Todd conducted on Nov. 26, 2000, in Ponca City. Dr. Edwin Curtis Yeary was born Jan. 7, 1916, in Elmore City in Garvin County to Edwin Hannibal and Ruth Alice (McCandless) Yeary. He graduated from Elmore High school in 1933 and entered the University of Oklahoma. He went through medical school and and received his M.D. in 1939. While at OU, he joined the Army R...
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