Young, George W. 1896-1982

YOUNG

Posted By: Barbara Kamradt
Date: 3/21/2004 at 16:20:16

FORMER MAYOR G. YOUNG DIES

George W. Young, 86, 425 Victoria Court, Sioux City’s first mayor under the city-manager form of government, died Monday [Dec. 6, 1982] at Sioux City hospital after a long illness.

Before he left city government, Mr Young was a councilman for a total of 12 years, and served four two-year terms as mayor.

At that time the owner of Young’s Dairy, Mr. Young entered politics in 1953 when he became a candidate for City Council. That election was the first City Council race to follow approval by voters of a change in city government from the commission to the city-manager form.

Young was born July 10, 1896, in Sioux City, and was the third generation in his family to live in Sioux City. His grandfather, George W. Young, came to Sioux City around 1870, and his father, Earle Young, entered the dairy business putting his first milk wagon on the streets of Sioux City in 1897. He eventually sold the business, however. The former mayor started Young’s Dairy in 1924. He sold the dairy to Roberts Dairy Co. in 1964.

Young attended Sioux City public schools and graduated from Central High School in 1914. He was an Army veteran of World War I. He married Mary Cascaden April 6, 1924, at Waterloo, Iowa.

Survivors are his wife; a son, Thomas of Scottsdale, Ariz.; two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Barbara) Farmer of Sioux City and Mrs. Donald (Faith) Best of San Antonio, Texas; 10 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Services were held at 2 p.m. this Thursday at First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. William F. Skinner officiated. Burial was in Logan Park Cemetery under the direction of the Nelson-Berger North side Chapel.

A memorial is being established in his name at First Presbyterian Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Young were former Hinton residents. They owned the farm north of Hinton, known as the Young farm.