Dorothy Beard Young

BEARD, YOUNG, JANES, VASQUEZ, WICKETT, JOHNSTON, HITCHCOCK

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 4/8/2006 at 11:43:25

Winterset Madisonian, Wintersset, Iowa
May 20, 1992

DOROTHY D. YOUNG, Winterset

Funeral services for Dorothy D. Young, 68, retired Winterset business entrepreneur, were held Sat., May 16 at Collins Funeral Home with the Rev. Bob Epperson officiating. Mrs. Young died of a respiratory ailment on May 13, 1992, at Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines.

A lifetime Madison County resident, she was born March 17, 1924 to Clyde and Mary (Janes) Beard and married Donald K. Young on November 10, 1940 at Camp Dodge. She was the former owner and operator of Young's Restaurant with her husband for eight years, retiring in 1989, and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion auxiliaries and the Madison County Antique Association.

Surviving are her husband; two sons, Donnie of Indianola and Bruce of Winterset; a daughter Karen Ann (Mollie) Vasquez of Des Moines; two brothers, Jerry Beard and Forrest Beard, both of Indianola; four sisters, Jackie Wickett of Indianola and Darlene Beard, Wanda Johnston and Rae Ann Hitchcock, all of Winterset; and four grandchildren.

Burial was at Winterset Cemetery.