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| Helen J. Young |
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| People - Obituaries | |||
| Written by Staff | |||
| Friday, 30 January 2009 09:00 | |||
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Helen J. Young, 87, died peacefully of heart-related problems Jan. 14, 2009. She was born June 23, 1921, on the family homestead in Nampa, Idaho, to Richard and Jennie Bradshaw Agenbroad. She attended a two-room country school and graduated from Nampa High School in 1939. Along with her siblings, she worked in the family orchards during her high school years and later worked in a variety store. In April 1939, she married Floyd “Bud” Young, and in 1940. The couple moved to his hometown of Louisburg. They moved back and forth between Nampa and Louisburg for several years, then moved to Dayton, Wash., in the early 1950s. They settled in Milton-Freewater, Ore., in June 1963. She was employed at a variety store in Dayton and then as a sanitation technician at McLoughlin High School in Milton-Freewater until the fall of 1976. During summers, she worked for a number of food-packing companies in the area, and from 1980 to 1989, she was a courier for the Bank of Commerce. She quit work to care for her husband, who suffered a stroke in 1969. He died April 10, 1996. She enjoyed people, helping others and was well-known for both her sense of humor and her pies and biscuits. She was a 4-H leader in Kansas and a member of the Methodist church. She became a member of the First Church of God in Walla Walla, Wash., in 1969. She was preceded in death by her husband and two brothers, Paul Agenbroad in infancy, and Donald Agenbroad. She is survived by a daughter, Sharon E. Maher of Aloha, Ore.; two sons, Albert M. Young of Dayton and Richard D. Young of Milton-Freewater; two sisters; three brothers; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. She will be missed. She was remembered in a memorial service Jan. 19 at Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main St., Milton-Freewater, OR 97862. A service will also be held in the spring in Nampa, Idaho, where she is buried with her husband.
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