Roger Conrad Yeager

Roger Conrad Yeager passed away on March 10, 2025 at the age of 63 in Portland Oregon.

Roger was born on December 11, 1961, in the San Francisco Bay Area to Samuel Yeager and Elaine Yeager (née Gunther). A gifted and dedicated athlete, Roger excelled in middle distance running, with his two-mile school record of 9:20 set back in 1980 at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California, still standing. After graduating from high school, Roger kept hammering away at his running as his own coach and lowered his mile time down to the lower 4:10s.

Shortly after high school, Roger moved to Portland, Oregon, embarking on a successful decades-long career as a long-haul trucker, and later, a caring, responsible landlord. Roger often presented as an iconoclast loner, yet he was a generous friend and gifted mentor, starting many in his circle down the paths of their eventual vocations, avocations, and salvations by introducing and training them in the things in which he excelled and loved: musicianship, meditation, and health and nutrition.

In retirement, Roger enjoyed reading, researching, and working out, and had plans to assist as a scuba diver in rebuilding coral reefs in Florida. Roger will be remembered for his self-reliance, generosity, and impassioned advocacy of his strongly held convictions.

Roger is survived by sister Electra Yeager (Bill Sidney).

Interment and services will be private. For those who wish, please consider a donation in Roger’s memory to the Linus Pauling Institute, an organization of which Roger was a long-time supporter.