Elkins Intermountain Obituaries:Y (2002)
Gary M. Yeager
Lorene Yokum
Lorene Yokum
Norma J. Yokum
Norma Jean Yokum, 62, of Petersburg, died Monday, April 1, 2002, at her residence in Petersburg.
Friends will be received at Schaeffer Funeral Home in Petersburg Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be in the funeral home chapel Friday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Gary Phillips and Pastor Craig Howard officiating. Interment will follow in Yokum Family Cemetery in Petersburg. From 3 Apr 2002.
Clifford J. Young
Clifford J. Young, 83, of 47 N. Florida St., Buckhannon, died Friday, Feb. 15, 2002, in his home in Buckhannon.
Mr. Young was born Sept. 25, 1918, in Washington, D.C., a son of the late Harry Young and the late Elizabeth Perveiler Young Kimphlin.
On May 8, 1937, he married Eleanor P. Stance Young, who survives.
Also surviving are a son, Thomas J. Young, French Creek; an adopted son, Ricky Young, Stevens Point, Wis.; three daughters, Darlene Young, Omro, Wis., Bonnie Hill, Coloma, Wis., and Becky Bailey, Crystal Lake, Ill.; three grandsons, Robert, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., Johnny and Tommy, both of Omro, Wis.; three granddaughters, Laura Ann, Hancock, Wis., Christine, Coloma, Wis., and Peggy, Omro, Wis.; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Mr. Young was a newspaper pressman for the Chicago Tribune. He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Illinois. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Phillipines. He attended Holy Rosary Catholic Church.
Interment was held in Hancock Cemetery in Hancock, Wis. Poling-St. Clair Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Funeral Arrangements: No information available at this time. From 18 Feb 2002.
Carrie L. Young
Martha N. Young
Martha "Pauline" Nay Young, 72, of Route 3, Elkins, died at 2:13 a.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2002, in Davis Memorial Hospital. She had been in declining health for the past 20 years and death was attributed to respiratory disease.
Mrs. Young was born April 25, 1929, in Harding, a daughter of the late Alfred Detroit Nay and Ruby Wilson Nay.
On June 18, 1947, in Junior, she married Hayward Joseph Young, who preceded her in death on Jan. 29, 1982.
Surviving are a son, Charles Edward Young, Elkins; four daughters, Linda L. Gordon and husband, Donald, Elkins, Patty A. Young, Elkins, Loretta Jenkins, Lucasville, Ohio, and Lanette Arbogast and husband, George, Elkins; two brothers, Joseph Edward Nay, South Carolina, and John Robert Nay, North Carolina; three sisters, Jacquelyn Waina, California, Shirley Bohon, Gilman, and Anna Claire Koon, Grafton; seven grandchildren, a great-grandchild and nine nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by a son, Edward Joseph Young; a daughter, Patsy Jean Young; a brother, Alfred Detroit Nay Jr.; and three sisters, her twin Aileen Nay, Betty Jean Kelly and Charlotte Nay.
Mrs. Young was a homemaker. She attended the one-room school in Harding. She was a member of Elkins First Church of the Nazarene.
Funeral Arrangements: Friends will be received at Lohr-Barb-Vance Funeral Home today from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be in the funeral home chapel Wednesday at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Robert L. Baer officiating. Interment will follow in Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman. From 26 Feb 2002.
Eulah D. Yount
Eulah Dorothy Simmons Tacy Hanna Yount, 96, a resident of Huttonsville for more than 70 years, departed this life at 3:10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, 2002, in Davis Memorial Hospital following an extended illness. He had been a resident at Nella's Nursing Home since May of 2002.
She was born March 9, 1906, at Conley Run near Valley Head, a daughter of the late Valentine and Elverda Ware Simmons.
She was the last surviving member of her immediate family, having been preceded in death by six brothers, Harvey, Roy, Jesse, Conley, Frank and Bert Simmons; and four sisters, Nola Vandevender, Geneva Snyder, Nina Arbogast and Goldie Wamsley.
She attended the schools of Randolph County and was formerly employed as a cook at Don Bosco in Huttonsville. She also was a "cookie" at her brother-in-law's, Daris Vandevender, logging camp, where she met her first husband, Walter Tacy. They were married at the home of her late parents, Valentine and Elverda Ware Simmons, in Valley Head. On Feb. 4, 1948, Mr. Taylor was killed on Cheat Mountain while employed for the West Virginia Department of Highways. To this union were born her daughter, Gatewood Carr Godwin of Mill Creek, and two sons, Bill C. Tacy and wife, June, and Frank L. Tacy and wife, Gisela, all of Huttonsville.
On June 7, 1950, she married Julian Anton Hanna of Davis. He departed this life in 1967, leaving her with two stepchildren, the Rev. Julian A. Hanna and Mickey Hanna Johnson.
On Dec. 21, 1969, she was united in marriage to Dr. Glenn O. Yount of Hickory, N.C. He had served a minister of the Mill Creek and Tygart Valley Presbyterian Church for many years. She was survived by her stepchildren: two stepsons, the Rev. James Yount and wife, Betty, of Waynesboro, Va., and Bill Yount and wife, Mary Francis, of Florida; and three stepdaughters, Betty Mae and husband of Connecticut, Mary Francis Yount, and Rena Yount Dyer and husband, John. Dr. Yount departed this life in 1979.
Mrs. Yount is also survived by nine grandchildren, Stephen D. Carr and wife, Mary Rachel, Rodney Carr and wife, Charolette, Mickie Tacy and wife, Susan, Clarence Tacy, Randy Tacy and wife, Carol, Derrick Tacy and wife, Whitney, Dorothy Tacy and husband, David Tyson, Crystal Tacy and husband, Bruce Bolden and Susan Tacy and husband, Jim Miracle.
Also surviving are eight great-grandchildren, 16 great-great-grandchildren, several stepgrandchildren, several stepgreat-grandchildren, stepgreat-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Yount was a member of the Tygart Valley Presbyterian Church where she sang in the choir.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Huttonsville Rebekah Lodge, IOOF Lodge, and a past member of the Mill Creek and Huttonsville Extension Homemakers.
She loved everyone and told them so. Mrs. Yount will lie in state at F.E. Runner Funeral Home, who has served all her family in the past. Friends will be received after 6 p.m. Saturday at the Runner chapel. Funeral services will be conducted from the Runner chapel Sunday at 3 p.m. Dr. Robert J. Klein, pastor of the Mill Creek Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Interment will follow in Brick Church Cemetery at Huttonsville. From 13 and 14 Sep 2002.
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