Dale Young, 1921-1995

YOUNG, OLSON, BORTVIT, TROMBLAY, MARONDE, KRIER, RICHARD

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 06:56:15

Wallingford - Services for Dale Young, 73, of Wallingford will be held Wednesday, March 15 at 2 p.m. at the Wallingford Lutheran Church with Pastor Jack Torgersen officiating. Interment will be at Wallingford Lutheran Cemetery, Wallingford. He died Saturday, March 11 [1995] at his home near Wallingford.

Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 at Henry Olson Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville.

He was born December 2, 1921 in Wallingford, the son of Glenn A. and Blanch (Olson) Young and attended a country school in the Wallingford area graduating from Graettinger High School in 1939. He began farming after high school in the Wallingford area.

He married Dolores Olson on July 1, 1944 in Wallingford. He lived and farmed all of his life on the farm he was born on except for four years when he lived just across the road. Dolores died February 10, 1985. He married Frances Bortvit on February 21, 1987 at Graettinger. He was a member of the Wallingford Lutheran Church, Emmet County Cattlemen's Association as a past board member and the Elks Lodge.

He is survived by his wife of Wallingford; one daughter, Mrs. Al (Diane) Tromblay of Wallingford; two sons, David and Douglas of Wallingford; eight grandchildren; two step daughters, Mrs. Leo (Diane) Beschorner of Waverly; Mrs. Dwight (Mary Frances) Johnson of Atkinson, Neb.; two stepsons, Dennis Bortfit of Sioux City and Michael Bortvit of Moultrie, Ga.; four step grandchildren; three sisters, Marjorie Maronde of Tucson, Ariz.; Lorene Krier of Spirit Lake and Mrs. Wayne (Norma) Richard of Estherville.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, an infant daughter, his parents and two brothers.

Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, March 13, 1995.