Robert Yellowhair Sr. of Snowflake passed away on Monday, July 25, 2016, in Tucson after fighting many health conditions. A public viewing will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, July 29, at Silver Creek Mortuary, located at 745 Paper Mill Road in Taylor. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 30, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Temple View Chapel in Snowflake. A brief viewing will precede the funeral starting at 2 p.m. at the church. Interment will follow at the Reed Hatch Memorial Cemetery in Taylor. He was born Aug. 8, 1937, in Na-ah-tee Canyon to Peter and Phoebe Yellowhair as part of the Zuni Running in to Water Clan born for Cliff Dwellers. His fraternal and maternal Clans are of the Towering House Clan. Robert was a world known person. He was an artist, buckle maker and saddle maker. He loved to hunt with his family. He was a past president of the All Indian Rodeo Cowboy Association. He qualified for the I.N.F.R. seven times as a team roper. At an early age he also studied oil painting in Carson City, Nev., and has since painted thousands of paintings. He honorably served in the U.S. Army as a Ranger, part of the 101st Airborne division. In the late 1950s he met and married the love of his life, Louise Mae Yellowhair. His children soon came along, and he has been a wonderful husband, father, brother, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle and friend. His family includes his wife, Louise Mae Yellowhair; his children, Carl (Michelle) Yellowhair, the late Carol Ann Yellowhair, Johnny (Joy) Yellowhair, the late Desbah Lou Yellowhair, the late Tina Louise Taylor and her husband Matt Taylor, also Loren (Sharalee) Yellowhair, Robert Yellowhair Jr. and Uriah Washington. His family also includes 17 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; his brothers and sisters, the late Danny Yellowhair, the late Lucy Rockwell, Skeet Yellowhair, the late Samuel Yellowhair, Jimmy Yellowhair, Betty Yellowhair, Jerry Yellowhair, Bert Yellowhair, Rose Edsitty, Susie Begay and Judith Yellowhair, and a baby sister who died after birth.
