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Robert “RV” Yates

Robert was born in Denver, Colorado to Vernon & Margaret Yates. At an early age he moved to a farm in Seymour, Missouri, where he went to school and farmed the ranch. He graduated high school in 1960 from Seymour where he met his beautiful wife Karen in 1961. RV & Karen had 3 beautiful children Kim, Chris & Mark. In 1965 while Karen was pregnant with Kim, RV was badly burned in a house fire and spent 6 months in the Burn Unit recovering.

Shortly after in 1966 they moved to Klein, Mt where RV loved chasing the oil field. The family settled in Klein and never left. RV st...