Services were held Nov. 23 in Lexington, Va. for Clifton Yearley, 70, retired chair of the UB history department. Yearley died Nov. 14 in his home in Lexington.

During his 23 years at UB, Yearley served as chairman of the history department and as director of graduate studies for the department. He also taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Delaware and the University of Rome, Italy.

The author of three books and hundreds of articles, he received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Yearley, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in both the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters, received two bronze stars. He served in the Marine Corps Reserve after the war and earned a doctorate at Johns Hopkins. In 1950 he was recalled to active duty and was awarded the Navy Cross and Silver Star for heroism during the Korean war combat at Chosin Reservoir. He had a three-decade career in naval intelligence in addition to teaching, retiring as a Navy commander and a Marine lieutenant colonel.