Bobbye was born in April 1924 in Oscar, Ballard County, KY. He served in the Army during WWII and was in Germany. After the war he returned to Michigan where he worked at Goodyear Tire in Jackson, Jackson, MI.
He married Billie Lindsey. They had two children: Sandra Elaine Yancey and Michael Paul Yancey. He adored his family. They would spend summer vacations (two to four weeks) at Will-Vera Camp Ground on Kentucky Lake in Marshall County, KY. They would camp every summer. They had a boat, two or three tents and enough fishing equipment to supply the county. Bobbye loved to fish and for his children to have good time. He would take his children water skiing all over KY Lake. Everybody had a good time when Uncle Bob was around. He loved to laugh. In 1967 he suffered a heart attack. He was a patient at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. The doctors tried all kinds of treatment but Bob was not responding like they thought he should. Bobbye had signed papers to be the first heart transplant patient in the United States. His doctors told him his chances of surviving the transplant surgery were slim so they tried an experimental drug on him and he responded well.
In 1968 or 1969 Goodyear opened a plant in Union City, TN and they transferred Bobbye to that plant. In 1973 Goodyear opened a plant in Madisonville, KY and Bobbye was transferred to that plant. In December 1974 after attending a basketball game with his brothers (Rommye Lee and Clyde Newton) Bobbye had a heart attack. He died a few days after in the Intensive Care Unit at Lourdes Hospital, Paducah, McCracken County, KY.
He married Billie Lindsey. They had two children: Sandra Elaine Yancey and Michael Paul Yancey. He adored his family. They would spend summer vacations (two to four weeks) at Will-Vera Camp Ground on Kentucky Lake in Marshall County, KY. They would camp every summer. They had a boat, two or three tents and enough fishing equipment to supply the county. Bobbye loved to fish and for his children to have good time. He would take his children water skiing all over KY Lake. Everybody had a good time when Uncle Bob was around. He loved to laugh. In 1967 he suffered a heart attack. He was a patient at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. The doctors tried all kinds of treatment but Bob was not responding like they thought he should. Bobbye had signed papers to be the first heart transplant patient in the United States. His doctors told him his chances of surviving the transplant surgery were slim so they tried an experimental drug on him and he responded well.
In 1968 or 1969 Goodyear opened a plant in Union City, TN and they transferred Bobbye to that plant. In 1973 Goodyear opened a plant in Madisonville, KY and Bobbye was transferred to that plant. In December 1974 after attending a basketball game with his brothers (Rommye Lee and Clyde Newton) Bobbye had a heart attack. He died a few days after in the Intensive Care Unit at Lourdes Hospital, Paducah, McCracken County, KY.
Bobbye was born in April 1924 in Oscar, Ballard County, KY. He served in the Army during WWII and was in Germany. After the war he returned to Michigan where he worked at Goodyear Tire in Jackson, Jackson, MI.
He married Billie Lindsey. They had two children: Sandra Elaine Yancey and Michael Paul Yancey. He adored his family. They would spend summer vacations (two to four weeks) at Will-Vera Camp Ground on Kentucky Lake in Marshall County, KY. They would camp every summer. They had a boat, two or three tents and enough fishing equipment to supply the county. Bobbye loved to fish and for his children to have good time. He would take his children water skiing all over KY Lake. Everybody had a good time when Uncle Bob was around. He loved to laugh. In 1967 he suffered a heart attack. He was a patient at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. The doctors tried all kinds of treatment but Bob was not responding like they thought he should. Bobbye had signed papers to be the first heart transplant patient in the United States. His doctors told him his chances of surviving the transplant surgery were slim so they tried an experimental drug on him and he responded well.
In 1968 or 1969 Goodyear opened a plant in Union City, TN and they transferred Bobbye to that plant. In 1973 Goodyear opened a plant in Madisonville, KY and Bobbye was transferred to that plant. In December 1974 after attending a basketball game with his brothers (Rommye Lee and Clyde Newton) Bobbye had a heart attack. He died a few days after in the Intensive Care Unit at Lourdes Hospital, Paducah, McCracken County, KY.
He married Billie Lindsey. They had two children: Sandra Elaine Yancey and Michael Paul Yancey. He adored his family. They would spend summer vacations (two to four weeks) at Will-Vera Camp Ground on Kentucky Lake in Marshall County, KY. They would camp every summer. They had a boat, two or three tents and enough fishing equipment to supply the county. Bobbye loved to fish and for his children to have good time. He would take his children water skiing all over KY Lake. Everybody had a good time when Uncle Bob was around. He loved to laugh. In 1967 he suffered a heart attack. He was a patient at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor. The doctors tried all kinds of treatment but Bob was not responding like they thought he should. Bobbye had signed papers to be the first heart transplant patient in the United States. His doctors told him his chances of surviving the transplant surgery were slim so they tried an experimental drug on him and he responded well.
In 1968 or 1969 Goodyear opened a plant in Union City, TN and they transferred Bobbye to that plant. In 1973 Goodyear opened a plant in Madisonville, KY and Bobbye was transferred to that plant. In December 1974 after attending a basketball game with his brothers (Rommye Lee and Clyde Newton) Bobbye had a heart attack. He died a few days after in the Intensive Care Unit at Lourdes Hospital, Paducah, McCracken County, KY.
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