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Thank you for all the replies. Just to clarify a few things. The shul in question as some of you might know has many different Rabbonim davening at the many different Minyanim the shul offers. The issue came up when the main Rabbi who is a Sfardy was not in Shul. 2 other Rabbonim who were present had the same thought that the Yahrtzeit has Kadima. Thankfully, I had alerted the other member earlier and he davened Mincha at our 12:30pm Mincha Minyan. The discussion started when he came into Shul and stated his opinion even offering to make a small wager on a nice expensive bottle of Bourbon.
We started delving into the many different seforim that discuss this and we see that we were both right. The one point that I would like to state is that it seems like most of the earlier Poskim who give their opinion seem to be basing it in a case where only one person says each Kaddish. Later seforim that discuss this issue seem to be of the opinion that its all based on the Minhag Hamakom. Based on most current Minhagim in Shuls in my area it seems that the majority hold that Yahrtzeit has Kadima. To me that makes the most sense simply based on the fact that it only happens once a year as opposed to Shloshim which is ongoing for that month.
The one other point that I found interesting was from The Neta Gavriel who paskins the whole question based on Membership status. He discusses many different cases that can apply and seems to state that a member come before a guest. He also places the Avel at the end of his 11 months on the bottom of the list of Kadima. But in our case he gave me one more reason to know that I made the right choice. The Yahrzeit is a neighbor who has been davening at our Erev Shabbos Minyan since its inception while the Shloishim is a member who lives in the Concord area but just started davening at this minyan since he started saying Kadish. In such a case the Neta Gavriel says that the Yahrzeit has Kadima.