Glenn Allison Young, 1894-1958

YOUNG, OLSON, OLESON, RICHARDS, KRIER, MARONDE, LARSON, TORRESON, MCCOMBS

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Date: 4/22/2009 at 06:58:30

Rites Held Saturday at Wallingford

Funeral services were held Saturday for Glenn A. Young, 63, well known Wallingford farmer and insurance man, who drowned Thursday while ice fishing at Ingham Lake. Services were held at 2:30 at Wallingford Lutheran church with the Rev. Norbert Jollvette officiating. The Martin Funeral home was in charge of arrangements. Pall bearers were nephews of the deceased: Arnold Olson, Ralph Torreson, Darwin Olson, all of Wallingford, Kenneth McCombs of West Bend, David Young of Waterloo and Roger Young of Chicago. Honorary pallbearers were Lars Waldec, Ivan Cook of Wallingford, Alfred Lammers of Graettinger, W.S. Clark, S.O. Lundy and Warren Peterson of Estherville and William Bowie of Des Moines. Burial was in Riverside cemetery at Wallingford.

Mr. Young was born July 21, 1894 at Spencer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Young. He received his education in the Spencer area schools. He was baptized in the Lutheran faith and was confirmed in 1917 at Wallingford by the Rev. Mr. Severson.

He moved to the Wallingford community in 1913, having lived there since, within a radius of three miles. He had been engaged in the insurance business there for 24 years.

On January 17, 1917 he was united in marriage to Blanche Oleson at Wallingford. Six children were born to them.

Mr. Young was a past president of the Wallingford Telephone Cooperative, Wallingford Cooperative Creamery, Wallingford school board, served as High Lake Township clerk for 20 years, and had recently been appointed to the finance committee of the Wallingford Lutheran church to raise funds for a new Christian Education addition.

Fishing was a hobby of Mr. Young as well as softball.

Survivors include his widow; three daughters, Mrs. Wayne (Norma) Richard; Mrs. Wilbur (Lorene) Krier, both of rural Estherville and Mrs. Gordon (Marjorie) Maronde of Minneapolis, Minn.; two sons, Dale and Stanley, both of the Wallingford area; nine grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Lewis (Ethel) Larson, Kennewick, Wash., Mrs. Alfred (Leta) McCombs of Graettinger, and Blanche of Charles City, and two brothers, Roy of California and Homer of Waterloo.

He was preceded in death by one son, Clare, one grandchild and one brother, Lowell.

Source: The Graettinger Times, Thursday, February 6, 1958.