I want to delete an email account without losing my contacts.

Why is this so difficult? I never wanted them associated with the email account in the first place!  I have everything set up to sync by Icloud and it doesn't seem to matter they are syncing with yahoo and if I delete the email I lose all my contacts!

I'm not sure what's wrong with your setup but I have numerous contacts in my Contacts app that originally came from my Mac's Addressbook.  I have a gmail and 3 other IMAP email accounts on my iPhone.  I have all my devices syncing to iCloud and I can add and delete email accounts from my iPhone 5 and it affects the Contacts in no way.
I was having wierd issues when I first setup iCloud with my email and contacts.  I was getting many duplicates showing up in my contacts.  I sign out of iCloud in the Settings, deleted all my email accounts, made sure my contacts were all correct in Contacts app, added my email accounts back as IMAP (instead of POP) and turned iCloud sync back on.  Everything has worked perfectly since doing that.  I love the IMAP setup because when I delete and email on any device it is automatically gone on all other devices.

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