Chris and Tara Younts

On April 20, 1963 Chris was born to C.W. and Betty Younts in Tem­ple, Texas.  His fam­ily moved to San Angelo when he was 5 years old and he has lived in the Con­cho Val­ley ever since. Chris has been mar­ried to his high school sweet­heart, Tara, for 28 years and together they have raised two won­der­ful chil­dren, Matt and Mandy.

From very early on, Chris devel­oped a love for the agri­cul­ture indus­try and resolved to be a part of it.  Through­out his life Chris has been involved with rais­ing cat­tle in part­ner­ship with his father and grand­fa­ther, and from 1990 to 2003 Chris and his grand­fa­ther ran a pecan orchard on Cop­peras Creek in Comanche County Texas.

In Jan­u­ary 1990 Chris joined the San Angelo Fire Department.  Much to his dismay, after suf­fer­ing a bro­ken leg in a ranch­ing acci­dent, he was forced to retire in Octo­ber 2000.  While agri­cul­ture was always his first love, Chris believes he has had no greater honor than to serve his fel­low cit­i­zens and rel­ishes the expe­ri­ence of his fire fight­ing career as well as the many life­long friend­ships he has devel­oped as a result.

After his grand­fa­ther and busi­ness part­ner passed away in 2003, Chris and other inter­ested fam­ily mem­bers decided to sell the cat­tle and pecan busi­nesses and free Chris up to focus on the insur­ance agency pur­chased in part­ner­ship with his brother Craig.

As an Inde­pen­dent Agent pro­vid­ing for the needs of his fel­low cit­i­zens of the Con­cho Val­ley, Chris has been afforded the unique oppor­tu­nity to view the insur­ance indus­try from the inside.  This per­spec­tive allows Chris to under­stand fully the aspects of the insur­ance indus­try that are effec­tive and have con­tributed to the over­all pros­per­ity of our nation.  Equally as impor­tant, he has gained well sea­soned knowl­edge of those aspects which have proven inef­fec­tive and should be addressed.

After pas­sage of the TARP bailout in Oct. 2008, con­cern about the direc­tion our nation was tak­ing prompted Chris to join with other con­cerned busi­ness own­ers in form­ing the San Angelo Tea Party.

Chris was active in YMCA youth and Lit­tle League pro­grams when his son was younger and con­tin­ues to sup­port the YMCA.  Chris and Tara are mem­bers of the Grape Creek Bap­tist Church.  Chris believes each indi­vid­ual and our nation as a whole can only ben­e­fit from the preser­va­tion of God, and the guid­ance He has provided, in our society.

For Chris, it is the val­ues of grow­ing up in Texas and the impor­tance of pre­serv­ing these val­ues for gen­er­a­tions to come which have led him to ask for your sup­port as he endeav­ors to give a true voice to the con­ser­v­a­tive peo­ple of the 11th District.