Team
Chappell Hearing Care Centers
Meet Our Professional Team
Kurt A. Chappell, B.B.A
Licensed Hearing Aid Dispenser
Director of Audiology | Owner
Kurt Chappell is a licensed Director of Audiology. He earned his BBA Management Degree at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He has taught on the Texas State Board of Exams Hearing Aid Specialists.
In 1991, Kurt conducted research with an M.D. to develop the first invisible hearing aid. He undergoes continuous advanced training in digital hearing aids and remains current with rapid changes in hearing aid technology. He actively seeks out the newest hearing instruments to make them available to his patients. He is also an expert in tinnitus treatment.
Kurt has a passion for helping people hear better and he has been given the Outstanding Service Award by Resound for extraordinary service to his patients. He also provides hearing care services for less fortunate people in the community and throughout the world. Because of various outreaches, including Churches, the Texas Workforce Commission, and our own patients, Kurt is able to help hundreds.
He oversees our Annual Hearing Missions, providing the gift of hearing to hearing-impaired children and adults in countries worldwide including Columbia, Dominican Republic, Africa, Haiti, and locally. Thanks to donations from our patients, Signia Hearing Aid Manufacturing, Oaktree, and Metrix, these Hearing Missions are quite successful.
Kurt and his wife have five beautiful daughters and three grandkids. They are active members of New Faith Baptist Church in Aledo, Texas. Kurt loves raising Japanese Koi, gardening, and his two dogs.
John Cobb, AuD
Doctor of Audiology (Retired)
After practicing for 45 years, John retired in 2021. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Arizona and his Doctorate from the Arizona School of Health Sciences. He served in the U.S. Navy and played in a rock band in the ’60s. As of June 2025, he has been married to his beautiful wife, Emily (Sam) Cobb, for 54 years. They have two adult children and two amazing grandsons. They were RV’ers for more than 20 years and have been to 38 states. (Oh, they have three dogs.)
He was Coordinator of Audiology at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for five years and then worked with an Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctor in Fort Worth for 30 years; and after 10 years at an Audiology Center in Green Valley, Arizona, he retired.
He has a significant hearing loss in both ears (playing in a rock band didn’t help) and has worn hearing aids for more than 30 years. Recently, Sam had been complaining that John wasn’t hearing her as well as in the past. So, he started searching for new hearing aids with updated technology, and this is how Kurt and Autumn Chappell came into his life. Kurt fit him with some amazing new technology, and they asked if John would like to be an Audiology Consultant for their office. He said yes, and here he is.
