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© The Enid Daily Times Enid, Oklahoma June 30, 1927 October 17, 1842 ~ June 28, 1927 Pioneer Resident Of Garfield Dies J. W. Young, 85, senior deacon of the First Baptist church, died at his home, 524 South Monroe yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Young was a pioneer settler of this community having spent many years in Enid and the Hunter community. He is survived by two sons and two daughters, Mrs John Kelley, one of his daughters resides in Enid, the other, Mrs W. W. Hagaman, resides at Lamar, Colorado. The two sons are E. L. Young of Portland, Oregon and W. L. Young of Carnegie, Oklahoma. All of the children will be here for the funeral. Services will be held Thursday afternoon at the Baptist church after which the body will be sent to Hunter for burial. Young was a member of of the GAR. This group will take a part in the last rites. Rev Andrew Potter will have charge of the body. |

© Garber -Reavis Funeral Home Garber, Oklahoma February 1990 October 19, 1888 ~ February 6, 1990 Hunter - The funeral for Lucian Guy Young, 101, who died Tuesday at Bass Baptist Hospital, Enid, will be at 11 AM Friday at Hunter Baptist Church. The Rev's Larry Allen and Calvin Miller, a grandson from Omaha, Nebraska, will officiate. Burial will be in White Cemetery, north of Hunter, under the direction of Garber-Reavis Funeral Home, Garber. The casket will be open at the funeral home through Thursday and at the church from 9 AM Friday until service time. He was born August 19, 1888, in Cheney, Kansas, to William Albert and Ximenia Woodrow Young. At age 4, he moved with the family to the Hunter area and attended Sunnyside rural school. He was a farmer and parttime automobile mechanic. On April 10, 1909, he and Edith E. Donaldson were married at the Donaldson home near Hunter. Young was a charter member of Hunter Baptist Church, which he helped build. He also served as a Deacon. Surviving are one son, Glenn of Hunter; two daughters, Zelma Young of Hunter and Lataine York of Selma, Alabama; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife in March 1951, one son, one daughter, two brothers and five sisters. Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the Baptist Mission Fund. |

© Enid Events Page 2, Column 4 & 5 Enid, Oklahoma March 15, 1951 Ocober 3, 1890 ~ March 7, 1951 Services for Mrs. Edith Young, pioneer resident of Hunter who died Wednesday in an Enid hospital was held at 2:30 pm Sunday it the Baptist church. Rev Lester Becker of Enid officiated and burial was in the White Cemetery. Mrs. Young came to Hunter from Kansas in 1900 and was a member of the Baptist Church. She leaves her husband, Lucien of the home, three daughters Miss Zelma Young of the home, Mrs Lataine York, Wichita, Kansas and Mrs Betty Thomas of Hunter; two sons Glen Young, Hunter, and William H. Young of Enid; her mother, Mrs Lucy Donaldson, of Pond Creek, and four sisters, Mrs Eunice Fuller of Blackwell, Mrs O. L. Reynolds of Pond Creek, Mrs George Harter of Enid and Mrs Howard Sowers of Monticello, Indiana. Out of town friend who attended the funeral of Mrs Young were: Mr and Mrs Ray Trekell, Mr and Mrs Claud Fox, Mr and Mrs Wayne Fletcher and Mr and Mrs Elmer Young, Marjorie and Mary Ann of Enid, Mr and Mrs Phillip Leonard of Ralston, Mr and Mrs Chub Whitson, of Wichita, Kansas, Mr and Mrs Keith Breckenridge of Pond Creek, Rev and Mrs York of Beaver City, Mr and Mrs Zack Leonard and Mr and Mrs Ralph Leonard of Mulhall, and Mr and Mrs Cecil Rhodes of Garber. © The Hunter Enterprise Page 2, Column 3 Hunter, Oklahoma April 4, 1918 Ocober 3, 1890 ~ March 7, 1951 Edith Stella Donaldson Young, oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs William Donaldson was born October 3, 1891, at Olsbug, Kanssas, and died March 7, 1951. At the time of death she was 59 years, five months and four days. At the age of 14 she moved to Hunter with her parents and had made her home in that vicinity until her death. She was united in marriage to Lucian Guy Young on April 10, 1910, and to this union were born five children, Glen of Hunter, Zelma of the home, William of Enid, Mrs Lataine York of Wichita and Mrs Betty Thomas of Hunter. She was member of the Hunter Baptist church. She is survived by her husband, five children, 11 grandchildren, her mother, Mrs Lucy Donaldson of Pond Creek and four sisters, Mrs Eunice Fuller of Blackwell, Mrs Eloise Harder of Enid, Mrs Ruth Reynolds of Pond Creek and Mrs Elsa Sowers of Monticello, Indiana. |