Yeager Augustus Bush Jr.

Yeager Augustus Bush, 1943 — 2025; A Remembrance:

Yeager Bush was a kind of complicated man. He loved women (but couldn’t stay married), loved to dance (expert level Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, Swing and Contra Dance), loved to travel, loved his mother, had problems with his father, argued with his older sister, Lynn, especially about politics, (but always remembered that he loved her). Says Lynn: “When I was a Democrat we had long and wonderful talks in person. We were good friends until I became a Republican, then he, like Dad, thought he could talk me out of it — by arguing with me and then I’d see the light.”

Yeager spoke French very well (which he learned later in life). He loved the Provence countryside in France. He learned to scuba dive in the ocean, fly a private airplane in the sky and piloted a NOAA ship through the Ballard Locks in Seattle (with his family watching proudly from the shore). Yeager earned two degrees (Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Nuclear Physics) from the University of Washington. He absolutely loved playing tennis and he mountain biked and hiked countless miles outside Boulder.

Yeager surveyed land professionally (had his own land surveying company in the Boulder area), built a homemade hydroplane as a teenager (which he used on Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish outside Seattle), argued politics passionately, voted Democrat, distrusted Republicans, visited family on two continents — and always tried to do things right and to do the right things. Yeager felt bad later if he missed the mark on either of those. He was a good brother, a good son and a good friend. He had a good sense of humor, loved to tease and was a lieutenant commander in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in a career that lasted nearly 22 years.

Yeager tried his best to be a good husband. He gave it his best at everything he tried. He sometimes succeeded; he sometimes failed — just like everyone else in this world. Yeager had many more successes than failures. Yeager had many more loves and passions than hatreds. He was loved. He will be missed. He is missed already by those who loved him. We Love You Yeager — Jim and Lynn.