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 Parker Jr. Samaritan Hospital in Greensboro on September 27, 2012, at the age of 95. Researchers concluded that he was the last surviving physician who served at Omaha Beach. Joseph Parker Jr. Joseph Lee Parker Jr. (November 20, 1916 – September 27, 2012) was an American doctor. Parker was the last surviving United States Naval physician who participated in the Allied invasion of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Parker was born in Waycross, Georgia, to Joseph Lee Parker Sr. and Vera Estelle Sweat. He graduated from the University of Georgia before completing medical school at the Medical College of Georgia in