Disassociating iMessage from contact

I'm having trouble with some of my contacts when I try to send an SMS message from Messages in Yosemite. They're former iPhone users, and come up as iMessage, and then show as red, not being able to receive the message.
This is not an issue on my phone or iPad, and the contacts have removed themselves from iMessage on their end. It almost feels like it's "cached" in a way.
Is there a way to reset this for individual users or even across the board?

Hi,
It is certainly a lack of a feature as on the iPhone you can click and Hold the iMessages and select Send as SMS.
There is nothing like this on the Mac.
Having said that from my Own Address Card it has "learned" not to show my Land Line as an iMessages possible and now lists it as a Text Messages possible option.
It was based on this I suggested seeing if it could learn from an iPhone started chat.
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