Extracted from The San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX)
Monday, September 13, 2004

Elbert Clifford ``Bert'' Young Jr.

Elbert Clifford `Bert' Young, Jr., age 76, died gently at home on Friday September 10, 2004.

Bert was born in Brady, TX on November 9, 1927 to Elbert Clifford and Irene Wilson Young. He graduated from Ingleside High School in 1945 and received a full athletic scholarship to Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. After a semester, he enlisted in the Army and served in Europe for 19 months in Special Services. He played the trumpet in the 1st Division Army Band, and played football, basketball, and baseball for the Army in Europe. He then continued with full athletic scholarships at Trinity University in San Antonio and graduated in 1951.

Though Bert started his adult career as a South San High School coach, he spent over 50 years in the group health insurance business. He also was in the Naval Reserves for over 25 years.

As a young adult, he was confirmed in the Episcopal Church, which became the core of his spiritual life. His ministries in the church included choir, youth minister, vestry person, senior warden, lay reader, lay Eucharistic minister, and diocesan committees (Stewardship, Bishop's Deputy for Insurance, and the Executive Board for the Diocese of West Texas).

Bert was an avid golfer, and he loved to read, attend the opera in Santa Fe, and fly small planes for pleasure. He took great joy in his family and had fallen completely in love with his first great-granddaughter, Katie, who turned one year old this week.

He will be sorely missed by his wife of 54 years, Patti Willis Young; daughter, Molly Young Houck and her husband Lou; son, Paul Harvey Young and his wife, Sharon; grandchildren, Benjamin Paul Houck and his wife, Lori, Molly Elizabeth Houck Hawkins and her husband, Aaron, and Heather Ollie Young; and great-granddaughter, Katherine Marie Houck.

The family is extremely grateful to Vitas Hospice for the loving care they provided Bert.

MEMORIAL SERVICE
MONDAY 4:00 P.M.
ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
315 E. PECAN

The Rev. Michael Chalk and the Rev. Phillip Stevenson officiating.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to St. Mark's Episcopal Church, St. Boniface Episcopal Church in Comfort, TX, or to the charity of your choice.

Arrangements with Porter Loring Mortuary.