Irma D. Young, 83, of Fitzgerald, Georgia died Tuesday, March 30, 2004 at Fitzgerald Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Thursday, April 1, 2004, at Paulk Funeral Home Chapel, Fitzgerald, Georgia, with Rev. Ed Reeves and Rev. Howard Kitchens officiating. Interment will follow in Abba Cemetery, Ben Hill County. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7:00 to 9:00 Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Young was born May 30, 1920 in Coffee County, Georgia, to the late Elias and Laura Lee Fussell Dale. She lived most of her life in Ben Hill County. Mrs. Young was a homemaker and a farmer’s wife. She worked as an Overhead Welder in the Brunswick Shipyards during World War II. Mrs. Young was a member of Big Creek Baptist Church.
Mrs. Young is survived by a son: Larry Brown, Fitzgerald; two granddaughters: Kristie B. Perry and Kendall Brown, both of Fitzgerald; three sisters: Christine D. Brown, Fitzgerald, Sally D. Pridgen, Rome, GA and Vermell D. Ellison, Zephyrhills, FL; one brother: Curtis Dale, Fitzgerald; step grandchildren: Terrie Hout and Ginger Clark; several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Young was preceded in death by her two husbands, J.J. Brown and Martin Young, three brothers and four sisters.