George T. “Tommy” Young

Marietta Monitor

April 30, 1999, page 4 Courtesy of Ray and Elreeta Weathers

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for George T. “Tommy” Young will be Friday at 2:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Funeral Home Chapel.

Born July 8, 1907, at Tuskahoma, Indian Territory, the son of Mike and Dona Baxley Young, Mr. Young died April 27, 1999, in Mercy Memorial Health Center, Ardmore, at the age of 91.

Mr. Young moved with his family to Courtney in 1919. He married Alpha O. Runnels on December 24, 1929, at Madill. Mr. Young worked in the oil fields and then reverted to farming and raising cattle. He was involved in various farm organizations. In 1939, he planted the first commercial crop of peanuts in Western Love County, and purchased the first mechanical cotton picker used in that area in 1954. Mr. Young retired in 1982 and moved to Marietta. He attended the First United Methodist Church of Courtney.

Survivors include his wife, Alpha O. Young of the home in Marietta; a son and daughter-in-law, Haskell and Sandy Young of Houston, Texas; two daughters and sons-in-law, Wanda and Edwin Smith of Burkburnett, Texas, and Kathie and Charles Taliaferro of Stillwater; two sisters, Gladys Daugherty of Gainesville, Texas, and Jean Dillard of Duncan; five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Mr. Young was preceded in death by a son, Tommy Joe Young in 1942; four brothers, three sisters and a great-grandson.

Interment will be in Lakeview Cemetery directed by Kennedy Funeral Home. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Brent Taliaferro, Mark Taliaferro, Jason Taliaferro and Edwin Smith, Jr.; and Larry Blankenship and Gene Jackson. Honorary bearers will be R. B. Romines, Jack Yocum, Harold Lester, Cotton Grant, James Glenn and Tankie Spivey.