Biographies of Our Forefathers

Alberta Yeakel was the fifth child and second daughter of Rose Ann Tinneny and Joseph Yeakel.  She was born on September 6, 1922 at 1:00 p.m. in the family home at 183 School Street in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.  Alberta was baptized at Saint Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia.  Her godparents were her father's sister Alberta Bege's children Aloysius and Alberta Bege.   

Alberta died of pneumonia on June 24, 1923.  Following a Mass at Saint Mary's Church, Alberta was buried in Saint Mary's Cemetery in Roxborough, Philadelphia.