Mary V. Young, 85, of the Osierfield community in Irwin County died Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at Palemon Gaskin Nursing Home in Ocilla.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 A.M., Friday, July 8, 2011 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel with Sister Alice Prescott officiating. Visitation will be held 7 to 9 Thursday evening at the funeral home in Fitzgerald. Interment will be private.
Mrs. Young was born February 20, 1926 in Osierfield to the late John L. and Julia Mae Bradley Faulkner. She was a 1943 honor graduate of the Ocilla High School, graduating in the top 10 of her class and was a member of the Tri-Hi-Y and the Science Club. Mrs. Young received training in Typing, First Aid, Teachers Aid and Accounting from Ben Hill-Irwin Technical School. She grew up in Osierfield, where she helped her family run Faulkner’s Grocery. Mrs. Young worked for more than twenty years as bookkeeper for Mann Investment Company and was a former employee of Dorminy Medical Center, Irwin County Hospital and the U.S. Postal Service in Osierfield.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law: Ann Y. Matthews of Crawfordville, FL, Vicki & Tony Grissom of Osierfield and Gwen & Ralph Smith of Fitzgerald; grandchildren: Penny & Scott McKinney, Angie Chesser, Michelle Kirkland, Jon Grissom, Tia & Andy Pridgen, Carrie & Donnie Reed and Ashley Barrentine; 14 great grandchildren; brother and sister-in-law: John Lawrence, Jr. “Son” & Jeanette Faulkner of Waycross. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Reason Young and a daughter, Judy Schwindle.
Memorials may be made to Hospice Care Options, 718 Legion Dr., Eastman, GA 31023 or to the Humane Society, 106 Lions Park, Fitzgerald, GA 31750.