The John Yates family

The John Yates family established its Alexandria roots through automotive-services entrepreneurship across three documented generations. John Yates Person John Yates d. 1989 Navy veteran and Alexandria service-station owner. Purchased his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in 1977 — the property his sons would later … , a Navy veteran, purchased his first service station in 1964 and the Braddock Road Mobil station in 1977; he died in 1989. His wife Lena Yates died in 1990 — the Lena’s Woodfired Pizza & Tap restaurant in Yates Corner is named for her. ^[1] Source 1 Alexandria Legends — Jason & Loren Yates Website

Jason Yates Person Jason Yates Second-generation principal of the automotive and commercial-property business. With his wife Loren Yates, redeveloped the Braddock Road Mobil station — bought by his father in … and his wife Loren Yates lead the second-and-third generation business. Beginning in 2005 they redeveloped a long-blighted Braddock Road property into Yates Corner, completed in 2013. The development is anchored by Lena’s Woodfired Pizza & Tap, Yates Drycleaners, and a 7-Eleven, and was built using LEED green-construction technology. Their son Jason Yates Jr., a University of Virginia mechanical-engineering graduate, helped design the project. The family also operates the Yates Automotive Service Center and runs the “Give Your 2 Cents” charitable donation program (established 2017). Jason and Loren are co-inductees of the Living Legends of Alexandria.

Disambiguation. Available public sources do not establish any common ancestor between this Yates line and the The Harold Yates family Family The Harold Yates family Two-generation Alexandria pediatric medical family. Patriarch (1915–1995) ran a long Alexandria pediatric practice from his 1941 UVA Med graduation through the 1980s; his son … pediatric medical Yates family of Alexandria — including Dr. Harold Yates Person Dr. Harold Yates b. 1915 · d. 1995 Alexandria pediatrician for roughly four decades from the late 1940s through the 1980s. Front Royal-born; UVA undergrad and 1941 graduate of UVA Medical School; WWII Navy physician … , the long-running pediatrician. Distant Virginia genealogical connection through 18th- or 19th-century shared ancestors remains possible but would require archival research to confirm. The corpus treats the two families as separate lineages until that research lands. ^[2] Source 2 Alexandria Library Special Collections Manuscript