Wilkie O. Youll 1893 - 1987

YOULL, OSBORN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/15/2022 at 20:04:35

Sioux City Journal
23 March 1987

Pierson, Iowa-- Wilkie O. Youll, 93, of Pierson, died Saturday in rural Canby, Minn., after a long illness.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Pierson United Methodist Church with Pastor Leslie Larson officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call after noon today at Dickison-Michaelson Funeral Home in Kingsley.

Mrs. Youll, the former Wilkie Osborn, was born July 23, 1893, in Danbury and grew up in the Danbury area. She married Vinton Youll on Sept. 1, 1915, in Danbury. They lived in Sioux City and later moved to Pierson. They also lived at Cherokee and Boone for a time before retiring and moving back to Pierson. Mr. Youll died in 1960. Mrs. Youll had been living with her daughter in rural Canby since November of 1986. She was a member of Pierson United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women.

She was a charter member of the Pierson Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star.

Survivors include three sons, George, Jim, and Ralph O., all of Sac City; four daughters, Mrs. Charlie (Thelma) Wahl of Pierson, Mrs. Herbert (Eleanor) Murken of Canby, Mrs. Ruth Pohl of Manassas, Va. and Mrs. Gladys Sparks of Downey, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Wayne (Helen) Blackburn of Pierson; 24 grandchildren, 40 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.