Stanley O. Young, 1918-1992

YOUNG, DANIELSON, MARONDE, KRIER, RICHARDS

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 07:08:32

Estherville--Services for Stanley O. Young, 73, will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church with Pastor Jack Peterson officiating. Internment will be in Wallingford Lutheran Cemetery with military graveside service by the VFW and the Wallingford American Legion.

He died Monday, January 11, 1992 at Scottsdale, Arizona.

Friends may call at Henry-Olson Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday.

He was born February 26, 1918, the son of Glenn and Blanche (Olson) Young, and attended Wallingford and Graettinger schools graduating from Graettinger High School in 1935. He attended Waldorf College at Forest City. On May 24, 1942 he married Alma Danielson at Armstrong. He worked for several years for Torreson Oil Company before entering the army and served in the United States and Germany during WWII. In 1950 he and Ralph Torreson started operation their own oil company; in 1958, he took over the insurance business that his father started in 1931 in Wallingford. In 1961 the couple moved to Estherville where he owned a General Insurance Agency for many years.

He was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church where he had held several offices on the council. A member of the Estherville Rotary Club; Wallingford American Legion; Estherville Veteran of Foreign Wars Post; Emmet County Zoning board; member of S.C.O.R.E.

He is survived by his wife Alma of Estherville; one brother Dale of Wallingford; three sisters, Mrs. Gordon (Marjorie) Maronde, Tucson, Arizona; Mrs. Wilbert (Lorene) Krier, Spirit Lake, and Mrs. Wayne (Norma) Richards, Estherville.

He was preceded in death by one son, Glenn; his parents and one brother.

Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, January 16, 1992.