YOST, Carl Curtis

Carl Curtis Yost slipped peacefully away on November 14, 2002 after a brief illness. He resided in Newport Beach, California & was 77. Carl began a lifelong love of photography as a boy when his grandmother bought him an inexpensive camera from a mail order catalog. Carl joined the Navy in 1942. While he took his camera with him, circumstance limited it's use. He became a corpsman. He treated the wounded at places like Guadalcanal, Peleliu, and Tinian islands. Leyte & Luzon in the Philippines & many other places where the common soldier did the fighting, the bleeding & too often, the dying. Carl was very proud of his service to his country & to the men he treated & always wished he could have done more. Throughout his life he never failed to volunteer to help someone in need. After the war, Carl's photography career took off, literally, with a job as public relations photographer with American Airlines. Carl was also a photographer with the Phoenix Gazette. When Carl's interest turned to motion pictures, he "camped out on their doorstep" until a fledgling KPHO channel 5 finally gave him a job as a floor cameraman. His most favorite association during this time was "The Wallace and Ladmo Show". Carl became a contract worker for all the news networks & filmed everything from above ground nuclear tests and space shots to presidents & Vietnamese refugees. Carl was a cameraman on a TV western called "26 Men" about the Arizona Rangers that was filmed on an estate in east Phoenix. Carl eventually started his own industrial and commercial film company "Capital Films of Arizona". He later joined NBC news in Southern California & eventually retired there after 15 years. Carl is survived by his sons, Richard & David & two grandchildren. Graveside service at East Resthaven Memorial Park at 11:30 a.m., Saturday November 30. Published in the Arizona Republic on 11/28/2002.