Merlin A. Young, 1919-1996

YOUNG, WOLTMAN, EKREN, ARENDS, KRAFT

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 07:07:33

Services for Merlin Arthur Young, 67, Estherville, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, January 14, at the United Methodist Church, Estherville, with the Reverend Tom Balm officiating. Burial with full military graveside rites conducted by the Estherville VFW and American Legion will be at East Side Cemetery. He died Friday, January 10, 1996 at Veteran's Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. Monday at Henry-Olson Fuhrman Funeral Home at 103 North Ninth Street, Estherville.

He was born January 5, 1919 in Cherokee to Claud and Grace (Cave) Young and received his education at the Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On August 24, 1939 he was united in marriage with Marion Woltman at the Methodist Parsonage in Cherokee. He was a master sergeant with the U.S. Army in World War One * and after his discharge from the military, he repaired radios and televisions and sold Watkins Products in the Cherokee area. The family moved to Estherville in 1965 where he worked as a parts man for Recher, Inc., for 10 1/2 years before he retired at age 65. He then operated a small parts business for himself. He was a member of the United Methodist Church and the Graettinger American Legion Post.

Survivors include two sons, James and Steven Young, both of Estherville; three daughters, Janet Ekren and Mrs. Rodney (Jill) Arends, both of Estherville, and Mrs. Woody (Kathy) Kraft of Lakefield, Minnesota; nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, June 16, 1985, his parents, one sister and one infant sister.

*This is an error. Merlin serviced in World War II.

Contributed by: Lynette Edsall. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; January 13, 1986