Amber Yeary
| Amber Milton Yeary, II (Texas businessman and | |||
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| Born | April 1, 1938 | ||
| Died | August 8, 2025 (aged 87)
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| Spouse | Sharon Snow Yeary (married 1960-2025, his death) Three children: | ||
| Religion | Southern Baptist | ||
| Military Service | |||
| Service/branch | United States Army | ||
| Years of service | 1971-1967 | ||
Amber Milton Yeary, II (April 1, 1938 – August 8, 2025), was businessman, school board member and president, Christian layman, and civic figure in his native Laredo, Texas. According to his obituary, he was known for his quick wit and adventurous stories from growing up in the border city in the 1940s and early 1950s.[1]
Even before his graduation in 1956 from Martin High School in Laredo, he worked by helping his father, Harold Rutherford Yeary (1908-1969), a native of Guymon, Oklahoma,[2] at the family-owned Yeary Battery Company. He was a graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. After his 1960 marriage to the former Sharon Snow, who survives him, he served in the United States Army beginning in February 1961. First stationed in Chicago, Illinois, he returned to the Laredo Army Reserve Unit and served until his honorable discharge in 1967. He was an outdoorsman, president of the Rotary International, and deacon and Bible study teacher at the First Baptist Church of Laredo. He was also involved in the Border Olympics,[1] a sports organization that began with track meets in the 1932 George Washington Birthday celebration in Laredo.[3]
Yeary's affiliation with Automotive Wholesalers of Texas opened business opportunities and relationships. He assisted in bringing Communities in Schools to Laredo in the early 1990s. He served for twenty-four years as a member of the Laredo Independent School Board, including time as board president. In this capacity, he began affiliation with the Texas Association of School Boards, of which he was the president from 1991 to 1992, and later the National Association of School Boards. He and his father remain the only father and son to have served as president of TASB during their respective tenure of service.[1]
The Yeary Battery Company closed in the early 1980s, and Yeary then launched a career with the United States customs brokers, Daniel B. Hastings, Inc.[1]
He was preceded in death by his grandparents Amber M., I (1884-1947), and Ione Marney Yeary (1889-1959), his parents, Harold R. and Cassie Mae Barrow Yeary (1907-1993), his son Amber Milton Yeary, III (1964-2022), his grandson, Amber, IV, his brother and sister-in-law Harold R. "Pat" Yeary, Jr. (1935-2023), a Laredo dentist, and Joyce Ann McBride Yeary (1935-2025), and his nephew Harold R. "Ford" Yeary, III (1960-1978), and his in-laws, Coy Dewey Snow (1898-1979) and the former Hazel Delaney (1905-1988), and sister-in-law Linda Jane Snow (1941-2023). n addition to his wife, he was survived by two daughters, Erin (Ron) Eichorst, and Caryn (Randy) Fox; his daughter-in-law, Norma Yeary (the widow of Amber, III), and eight grandchildren. He was the uncle of Kevin Patrick Yeary, a judge of the elected statewide Texas Court of Appeals. [1]
His services were held on August 14, 2025, at First Baptist Church in Laredo, at which honor guards of both the Army and the Laredo Veterans organization paid tribute.[1]