Joe Yule together in a Brooklyn production of "A Gaiety Girl", their only son, Ninnian Joseph Yule, Jr. (later Mickey McGuire, then Mickey Rooney), was born. The Yules separated in 1924 during a slump in vaudeville, and in 1925 Nellie moved with her son to Hollywood. Yule was naturalized as a United States citizen at the United States District Court in Los Angeles on May 14, 1943. Yule died from a heart attack on March 30, 1950 in Hollywood, California. Rooney arranged to have his father buried near Rooney's friend and longtime acting colleague, Wallace Beery, who had died the year before.
Joseph Riddle Jr. killed by enemy fighter aircraft after successfully bombing a Japanese destroyer north of New Georgia Island on 4 February 1943 and was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. was named in his honor. The ship was launched at Newark, New Jersey, 17 October 1943; and sponsored by Mrs. Anna B. Riddle. It was commissioned 17 November 1943. Joseph Riddle Jr. Joseph Riddle Jr. was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio, 6 January 1918. He enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve 28 May 1941, was appointed aviation cadet 2 September 1941; appointed naval aviator 7 March 1942; and appointed ensign 14 March