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Funeral services for Vivian Lucille (Martin) Young, 97, were held Friday, September 26, 2008 at First Baptist Church of Whitesboro. Interment followed at Oakwood Cemetery, Whitesboro. Mrs. Young passed away Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman.
Vivian was born on January 25, 1911 in Marietta, Oklahoma to C.C. and Anna (Waddell) Martin. She married William Bourland "Billy" Young on July 21, 1932 in Marietta, Oklahoma. Vivian was a homemaker early in her married life and when her children were older, she and two other ladies started Whitesboro Manufacturing Co. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Whitesboro.
Survivors include son, Jack W. Young and wife, Myna, of Dallas; daughter, Rita M. Lovejoy and husband, Hank, of Whitesboro; and brother, Hugh Martin of Arkansas; 12 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband; daughter and son-in-law, Verna and Billy Mayo; son, Joe Clinton Young; five brothers: Earl, David, Joe, Edward and Ernest Martin; sister, Alice Owens; great-granddaughter, Sydney Thweatt and great-grandson, Bradley Mayo.
Pallbearers were grandsons and grandsons-in-law: Cliff Mayo, Steven Young, Chris Lovejoy, Charles Hilliard, Pat Autry, James Thweatt, Richard Lebos, Guy Cumbie, Grant James and Wayne Shelby. - - - Meador Funeral Home