GREEN, Robert Lee

Published by Yuma Sun on Nov. 26, 2025 - Yuma, Arizona - Robert Lee Green passed away on November 10, 2025 in his home in Yuma, Arizona at the age of 91, after several months of home hospice care. He was born on August 4, 1934 to his father, Pete L. Green and his mother, Emma Green (nee Yekel) in Bayard, Nebraska. He grew up in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and married Margaret Baxter in 1958 in Palisade, Nebraska. Known to his friends and family as "Bob", he graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1957 with a degree in Engineering. After ROTC in college, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army, where his first Assignment was Anchorage, Alaska in 1958. Robert was ordered to Vietnam in 1965 - 1966, where he experience one of the first heavy battles which escalated the war. In 1971, he was stationed in Thailand for about a year. Having lived all over the U.S., including Hawaii, he was last stationed at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, where he left the army after the Vietnam War ended. He then worked for the Proving Ground as a Civil Engineer until his retirement in 1995. After leaving the regular Army in 1975, Bob joined the Army Reserves, where he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Robert is preceded in death by his parents, Pete and Emma Green of Nyssa, Oregon, and his infant daughter, Michelle. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Green, and sons, Thomas and Jeffrey Green, all of Yuma, Arizona; his daughter, Laura Barzano, and granddaughter, Gianna Barzano, of Tempe, Arizona, and his brother, Leonard Green of Baker City, Oregon. Bob enjoyed fishing in his earlier years and watching college football, especially when University of Nebraska was playing. He was a member of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) and the American Legion. Although memorial services are not planned at this time, his family and friends will always remember him as a kind, generous, and loving person. He will be greatly missed. Please sign the guestbook at www.legacy.com/obituaries/yumasun