Helen Young

Aug 14, 1928 - Jun 03, 2014

Our loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend, Sarah Helen Burgess Young, passed away Tuesday, June 3, 2014. She was a devoted mother and grandmother; resulting in our close, loving family.

Helen was the second of five children born to Lambert Robinson Burgess and Jessie Mae Purser, on August 14, 1928, in Hyde Park, Utah. She graduated from Rigby High School in 1946. She married Henry Dale Young of Boise, Idaho, on September 17, 1947, in the Idaho Falls Temple.

Helen was an active member of the LDS Church and served in many callings in the Relief Society. She worked as a legal secretary for Wendall R. Jones. Helen would say she was a “jack of all trades, master of none” but her children would disagree. She baked and decorated all of her children’s wedding cakes, knitted sweaters, booties and blankets for children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and many friends. She also enjoyed tole painting, crocheting, sewing, quilting, and playing pinochle and other card games with her family. She especially enjoyed playing Canasta with her friends at Hunter Villas. Helen loved watching bull riding on television and attending as many rodeos as she could. She could beat anyone at Jeopardy and loved completing crossword puzzles from the newspaper each day.

Helen is survived by her children, Steven Dale Young (Patricia), Mark Burgess Young, David Lynn Young (Jody), and Susan Tucker (Michael); 11 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; sister, Marjorie Oswald (Lloyd) of West Valley City, Utah; and brother, Robert Glade Burgess (Linda) of Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dale; parents; brother, Lambert Doyle Burgess; sister, Barbara Mae Cheshire; and grandson, Cody Ryan Young.

The family would like to thank the wonderful nurses and staff at CareSource Home Health and Hospice for their tender care.

Interment, Valley View Memorial Park.