Comanche, OK - Funeral service for Videll Yackeschi (tsa urapu) will be at 10 a.m. Monday, April 13, 2026 at Comanche Walters Community Center. Prayer service will be at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 12 at Comanche Nation Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be at Walters Cemetery in Walters, Oklahoma.

Videll Yackeschi (tsa urapu) was born to Wood Yackeschi and Suam Titchywy Nov. 15, 1935, at the PHS Indian Hospital in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was raised near Walters, Oklahoma, and departed this life in Meridian, Oklahoma April 7, 2026, at the age of 90 years old. He was the next to youngest child of 11 siblings.

At the age of five, Videll, contracted tuberculosis. When his health did not seem to be improving his mom and Aunt Lynn took him out of the hospital. His Aunt Lynn would read him the Bible every day and he memorized the 23rd Psalm. Later in his youth he would find comfort in a creek on his father's land that he would go by himself and pray. And that is how his relationship and love for God began. Videll first preached in 1958 at the Emerson Nazarene Church west of Walters, Oklahoma and from there many other Indian churches. After many years of preaching, he found himself back at his childhood church that was founded in 1935. In 1969 when the pastor of that church passed, Videll's dream of owning his own church came true. Videll was the sole pastor of Westside Baptist church for 59 years and was the first pastor to hold services annually at the Comanche Nation Fair since 1986.

Videll attended Walters grade school and Temple High School where he graduated in 1955 and enjoyed football, basketball, and track and field. He began his college education at Harmons Simmons College in Abilene, Texas. In 1961 he attended the Nazarene Indian Bible College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Later in 1978 he took a teaching position in Duncan, Oklahoma at the Red River Technology Center as Automotive Instructor. Also, during this time he received a bachelor's degree from Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma. On June 18, 1998, he was inducted into The Indian Falls Creek Baptist Assembly Hall of Fame, by virtue of long service in the Kingdom. Later in life Videll began working for the Comanche Nation Headquarters, where he began his work with the education department. He was considered a Comanche language expert and spent the majority of his time translating the Comanche language, sharing his tribe's history, and helping youths get scholarships. Videll continued his teachings of the Comanche language at the Comanche Nation College.

Videll met his one true love in Los Angeles, California at the Indian Nazarene Church while he was attending Pasadena College. Videll married Isabelle Werito Feb. 1, 1958. To the union two children, Karen, Kevin were born, and later a son, Chad was added to the family.

In Videll's free time, he enjoyed many hobbies and interests. He raised horses, and many other animals. He enjoyed Native American art and was an artist himself. He enjoyed singing, music, and playing the piano and guitar. Videll was a huge Dallas Cowboys fan and attended many of their games. He loved spending his time with family and friends and enjoying a good meal.

Videll was preceded in death by his parents, Wood and Suam Yackeschi; and siblings: Leo, Eli, Willis, Frank, Ethel, June, Winford (Bud), Tincy, Betty Jean, Herbert, Edgar.

Survivors include three children: Karen (Ohop Totsiya) and Doyle Goss, of Walters, Oklahoma, Kevin Yackeschi (Tunapi) and Marie, of Comanche, Oklahoma, and Chad Yackeschi (Peecoo), of Meridian, Oklahoma; four grandchildren: Ralynn Goss (Suam) and Mike, of Walters, Oklahoma, Lucas Goss (Wasape) and Jennifer, of Walters, Oklahoma, Rainy Yackeschi (Sahoodop) and Jeff (Motso), of Duncan, Oklahoma, Windy Yackeschi (Soo Yake) and Lane, of Comanche, Oklahoma; six great grandchildren: Zoe Goss (Sahoodop) and Zalachi Goss (Tue Wasape), of Walters, Oklahoma, Caison Yackeschi (Sutenapu) and Allie Yackeschi (Pia waoo), of Comanche, Oklahoma, and Ethan (Tuupe) and Connor Findley (Tue Taka), of Duncan, Oklahoma; and many other nephews, nieces, and relatives.

Pallbearers include Chad Yackeschi, Caison Yackeschi, Lucas Goss, Zalachi Goss, Jeff Findley, Ethan Findley, Connor Findley, Mike Wauqua Jr., and Kyle Tahpay. Honorary pallbearers include Kevin Yackeschi, Doyle Goss, Herschel Yackeschi, Dwayne Yackeschi, Lenny Wooth, Ted Wooth, Videll Wauqua, JD Wauqua, Sam Desselle, Richard Jacobs, and Robert Smart.

Though your smile is gone forever, and your hand we cannot touch. Still, we have so many memories of the one we loved so much. Your memory is our keepsake with which we will never part. God has you in His keeping. We have you in our hearts.