Netty Madden Yarbrough died on 29 July, 2011 at age 87 in Longview, TX.
Born in Columbus, GA, she then went to Atlanta, GA at age 17. She moved to East Point, GA where she raised her two sons while operating several businesses. In 1978, she moved with a close friend and business partner to Bradenton, FL where they ran several other businesses. Before retiring, they created and ran a pet boarding kennel in Myakka City, FL. She moved to Mt. Pleasant, TX in 2011 near one of her sons.
In her twenties, Netty was a highly ranked amateur golfer on the Pro-Am Circuit while a member of Druid Hills Country Club in Decatur, GA. She played with both Babe Zeharias and Louise Suggs. She gave up golf to care for her young family but took the game up again fifty years later. After only a few months of practice, she had played a 6-under-par round and was carrying a consistent 18-handicap. Not bad for an out of practice 75 year old!
During her long life, she endeared herself to many people with her humor, inspired others with her persistence and honesty, and, set an example for all with her loyalty and courage. She will be sorely missed by all who knew her.
She was predeceased by three brothers (James, Clinton and Douglas Madden), two sisters (Margaret Mitchell and Ruby Graves Munday), and her long-time friend and partner Shirley Degraves of Myakka City, FL. She is survived by two sons, Lanier B. Yarbrough of Oakland, CA and Dane Madden Yarbrough of Lone Star, TX, one niece, June Orr Boyd of Atlanta GA, four grandsons, and six great-grandchildren.
There will be no memorial service at her request. Cremation was carried out by the Bates-Cooper-Sloan Funeral Home of Mount Pleasant, TX.
My sister-in-law recently got an iPad 2 and asked me what games we have on our various iOS devices that James likes. Here’s what I recommended:
Apps James likes on the iPad, some of which you probably know of via the iPhone or Android phone:
Angry Birds/Angry Birds Seasons/Angry Birds Rio – You know these. Each continually is updated with more content (Easter was just added to Seasons). Note that Seasons is meant for people who’ve beaten the original game and is tough.
Bugsy the Blue Hamster – A cute cartoon hamster educational game, with counting, colors, etc.
Cut the Rope – A simple game like Angry Birds, but with cutting ropes to let candy get to the mouth of a cute frog-like monster. Like Angry Birds, they keep adding more free content all the time.
Fish School HD – An educational game featuring fish in the ocean.
Headspin: Storybook – A cute timed “spot the difference” game. The look and feel is that of a pop-up book of fairy tales.
Itsy Bitsy Spider HD – Another educational game, set to music. Note that, by default, kids can record their voices (it’s meant to be for the parents singing the song instead of the pros), which can make it an annoying noisemaker until you turn that feature off.
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox – An incredibly polished educational game with colors, matching, learning what’s less and what’s more, learning what’s bigger and what’s smaller, etc.
The Monster at the End of this Book – An iPad version of the classic Sesame Street story book (featuring Grover).
Plants vs. Zombies HD – Possibly the best game of 2009. Cartoon plants protect your home from cartoonish zombies. I don’t think anyone, of any age, doesn’t love this game.
Talesworth Adventures – A puzzle game of helping a hero (styled like an early 1980s videogame character) find his way through mazes. I would have thought this was too hard for James, but once he figured out the basics, he fell in love.
Tiki Towers – Incredibly charming physics game where players build structures out of bamboo to let monkeys get bananas and get to the other side of the level. (Note that it’s possible for the monkeys to have cartoon deaths falling into lava.)
World of Goo – One of the greatest games of the last few years. A physics puzzler where one has to create structures to help balls of goo reach their destination. Impossible to overstate how good this is, but note that the tone can be a tiny bit dark.
I would definitely look at at least one Angry Birds game, Cut the Rope, Plants vs Zombies and either Tiki Towers or the superior but darker World of Goo.
(EDIT: Greetings, Wired readers!)
As further confirmation of my hardcore geekdom, I crafted this wallpaper for my new iPad 2, which is more than halfway to a real-life Hitchhikers Guide. If Douglas Adams, a lifelong Apple fan, were alive today, I bet we’d see an official Guide app.
(And since I ordered my iPad through the Apple store, I received free engraving. Naturally, it’s now got “DON’T PANIC” engraved on the back.)
The blog lives! At least, it shows life for the annual list of the top 100 songs I listened to on the iPhone the year before:
1. “Cryin’ Shame” – Ferocious Few
2. “This Year” – Mountain Goats
3. “Too Fake” – Hockey
4. “From the Devil Himself” – Viva Voce
5. “Heart of Steel” – Galactic
6. “Boyfriend” – Best Coast
7. “Seven Nation Army” – Nostalgia 77
8. “How You Like Me Now” (single edit) – The Heavy
9. “Man on Your Mind” – Albert Cummings
10. “F**k You” – Cee Lo Green
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