Judge Yeary

Robert John Yeary

Entered office: October 18, 1985
Left office: November 09, 1998

Birth: November 19, 1930
Death:April 20, 2006
Burial: Morton Memorial Cemetery, Morton, Texas

Robert John Yeary was born November 19, 1930 in Cochran County.

In 1948, after graduating from Morton, he moved to San Angelo, Texas and attended the San Angelo Business College. He began working for the Santa Fe Railroad in1949.

He was drafted in to the Army in 1951 and discharged in 1953 when he began farming in Bailey County. The following year he enrolled in Texas Tech and received his Bachelor’s degree in 1958.

He married Maxine Bowers in 1956 and was appointed Cochran County Judge in October 1985.

Judge Yeary died April 20, 2006

Judge M. C. Ledbetter swearing in County Judge Robert Yeary Image courtesy Texas’ Last Frontier Historical Museum

Source: Texas Sesquicentennial Texas’ Last Frontier Cochran County 1836-1986 Volume 1. Copyright Cochran County Historical Commission written by Robert Yeary circa 1985 adapted by Mary Helen McKnight 2016

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