Birth date: Apr 6, 1938 Death date: Dec 15, 2022
Michael Alexander Yanette, 84 of Tampa, passed away peacefully on December 15, 2022. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and will be dearly missed by all who knew him. He was a retired Boilermaker. Read Obituary
I am Laura, the youngest daughter of my dad. I miss him so much every time I think about him. I have never been without him in my life, I’ve lived around the corner from him for as long as I can remember.
My dad was always there for me whenever I called on him for anything. If something broke in the house while Frankie was at work, he was always the first one I called and he would run over and fix a broken pipe, or anything electrical & he always knew how to fix anything, or even to bury my dog when he got hit by a car.
He helped, with my mom of course, to fix up our first home.
When I was a child my best memories with him were going out in his Jeep or his Bronco and hunting, well he didn’t much care for the killing of the animals after a while it was just for spotting them and he would always let my drive in the woods. He taught me how to drive a Stick shift when I was a little kid so he could look out the window for deer or rabbits.
My best memories were going camping. Every year we got to miss school for two weeks to the woods. We started out in a tent and eventually over the years we worked up to a camper trailer.
When I got married and had children, he made their first go-cart by hand. Then when we went to the pound and rescued an Alaskan Malamute, (White Fang) he built the grandkids a dog sled on wheels so White Fang pulled them around. Even though he had a hard job as a Welder, well a boilermaker he always managed to be there for all of us.
One thing I will never forget is when I was dating Frankie and we went to see a really scary movie and Frankie brought me home afterwards and my parents were gone, so I went down to my grandmother's house in the backyard and went to sleep with her. Well, when my parents got home, I wasn’t home, and Dad and Mom went to Frankies parents' house at 1:00am banging on the door yelling and saying your son has my daughter out and didn’t bring her home! Well needless to say Frankie had dropped me off and went out some place else. It’s very funny now but it wasn’t at that time. But that just reminds me how much he cared.
I know that he’s in heaven now with Grandma and Grandpa and all our loved ones that have passed and he’s looking down on us saying if we could see what he sees we wouldn’t be sad anymore.
Just to know that our time on earth now is so short and the rapture is just around the corner, and we will be with him soon.
We Love you and can’t wait to see you again in your new body.
Love Laura
I just wanted to start off by saying I thank the Lord that he brought Laurie in my life, and he gave me the opportunity to have such a wonderful father-in-Law, and it was an honor to be his son-in-law. If it wasn’t for him, I would have never learned the trade that I was in, and he was a master at his trade. He always said be the best that you can be in whatever you do because all you have to offer is your reputation. Companies and people are going to remember you even if it's for the smaller things like keeping your work area clean and organized. He had such a good reputation on the job that everyone wanted to work with him because they knew when they finished a job, they didn’t have to worry about any X-Ray welds because they all passed the X-Rays.
When we got on some jobs guys would like to Harras him because they would weld 10 to 11 tubes a day and he would weld 15 to 20.
He always instilled in everyone to give the company a good days work no matter what you were doing.
I remember when I first met Laurie, we all went scalloping when we came up out of the water I saw the boat drifting away and Laurie and I started swimming to the boat and finally made it in the boat and then Mike popped up out of the water and saw us in the boat far away and thought we had taken off with the boat needless to say he was upset till he realized the anchor had come loose.
He loved fishing, frogging, hunting and camping. Whatever problems came up he could always fix them, that’s where I learned a lot about fixing anything and how to be very good at my job.
He could build anything, he built onto his house to make it twice the size. He helped us renovate our first fixer-upper house.
He loved wheeling and dealing, he taught us how to buy our first car and we always got a good deal when he went. He also loved going to flea markets. He loved his children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren unconditionally. Life is fragile so you should celebrate it every day and tell everyone how much you love them.
(Here is a poem I want to read).
I miss you Mike, I think about you always,
I think about you still
you have never been forgotten
and you never will
I hold you close within my heart
and there you will remain
to walk with me
Throughout my life
Until we meet again
January 14th 2023
God has your back right now.
You may feel down, and you may not know how you will make it through the rest of this year, but the bible says, “Let not your heart be troubled.” God is with you today. In this moment, God is with you.
We miss and love you grandpa... We will see you again.
I worked a lot of years in the Boikermaker trade with him. He was a good guy. My condolences to the family.
What a Handsome cousin we all thought he was. I remember as a kid going to Va. beach and he went to the beach with us. Having Yanette burgers that Uncle Mickey made. What a great family you all have and I’m thankful I was a part of it. He will be missed by everyone. My condolence to each one of you. Love and prayers til we meet on the other side. He will see Aunt Jackie again.
As the oldest daughter with my Mom his wife Karen, and as one of my dad’s daughters. We all have lost a truly loving and dedicated father, and grandfather and great grandfather. I have not always gotten along with my dad at times, cause he was very stubborn!, and extremely opinionated. A trait that he has passed down to me as well. So I got him. But looking back on my childhood and my life with my dad. He really put up with a lot from me as a teen. But I think I’m grown up now. However I always talk about the things I learned from him that has given me the grit to push on in my life. When I sometimes wanted to give up. Cause he definitely was not a quieter. He had a standard that he expected his children to live by. That has certainly influenced me to be the person I am today. For that I love him dearly. We loved doing a lot of the same things. We loved going to the woods, and camping with the kids, when I was small, then even when the grandkids were small too. When we would get a cold snap, at the drop of the hat he would love to just go driven around in the forest reserve. For hours, and all to maybe catch a glimpse of some deer. Then, if we were lucky we would get to see some deer living in the wild. That would just make his day. I have already missed having him around for that. Plus so many other things. Every time I had a question about how to fix or do something I would call my dad. And he would usually have the answer. I have loved him as much as a daughter can love there dad. He has always been there for me. Im truly going to miss him. However I don’t think it will be that long before we all see him again. I know where he is, he’s in Heaven with many other loved ones that have gone before him. He knew that’s where he would go. At least he can breath now. That was such a difficult time for him and my Mom to go through. God finally took him home. I hope he’s already sitting on a river bank, happy, with a fishing pole. Watching all the deer in Gods great Heaven. I love you daddy, and I’ll see you very soon. Love always Terry💔
