Private service to be held for NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough, obituary says

Private service to be held for NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough, obituary says

FLORENCE, S.C. (WBTW) -- A private service will be held for the late NASCAR legend Cale Yarborough, according to an online obituary from Layton Anderson Funeral Home in Florence. Yarborough, 84, died early Sunday morning after a long illness. The obituary did not specify when the private service will be held. Yarborough won the Daytona 500 four times and the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway five times. His 83 Cup Series victories are tied wi…

Cale Yarborough obituary: Remembering NASCAR's toughest competitor

Yarborough was born in the small town of Timmonsville, South Carolina, in 1939. His father was killed in an airplane crash when Cale was just 12-years-old, and as the oldest of three sons, he was forced to grow up fast.He spent some time as a semi-pro football player and as a Golden Gloves boxer, but it was auto racing where he would make a name for himself. After attending the second-ever ...Keep reading