Mary E. Young (1913-2009)

YOUNG, MOFFATT, SMITH, MADDEN, BRADLEY, PIPPINS, LAIR, HOLST, GILLETTE, BLACK, HARUCH, CLARK, KEGLEY

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/9/2009 at 22:10:50

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, June 9, 2009.

Mary E. Young, 95, of Ames and Story City, died Sunday, June 7, 2009, at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames. A gathering of friends and family will be from 3 to 7 p.m., with the family present from 5 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, June 10, at Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, 414 Lincoln Way in Ames. A private family graveside service will be in Ames Municipal Cemetery.

Mary was born July 26, 1913, in Albia, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas Moffatt and Elizabeth Smith Moffatt. The family then moved to Hinckley, Minnesota, to homestead land. She graduated from Hinckley High School and then continued her education for two years of Normal Training. After teaching three years in Hinckley, she married Charles T. Young in 1935. The couple lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa Falls and Colo before moving to Ames in the 1940s.

She worked for Rushing’s Super Valu in Ames beginning in the late ’40s until transferring to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1961, where she served as the company’s office manager. She returned to Ames in 1989.

She was known for the seasonal decorations she placed in her yard on Grand Avenue, and was known throughout the area as the “Lady on Grand” for her unique folk art.

She is survived by two daughters, Roberta (David) Madden, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Sherry Bradley, of Ames; one son, Lon (Judy) Young, of Rockwood, Tennessee; seven grandchildren, Tracy Pippins, Blake Madden, Audrey Lair, David Bradley, Richard Holst, Jessica Young and Benjamin Young; six great-grandchildren, Meg Gillette, Laurel Black, Andrew Bradley, Kuniko Madden, Caitlin Bradley and Emmett Haruch; and one sister, Isabel Clark, of Cambridge, Minnesota.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one daughter, Judy Kegley; one brother, James; and two half-sisters, Christine and Ruth.

To send condolences to the family and sign the online guestbook, go to www.grandonfuneralandcremationcare.com .

Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care is assisting the family.

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