Lila Young

Tuesday, January 8, 2008 2:05 AM MST

GLENROCK -- Memorial services for Lila Ruth Young, 88, will be conducted at the Community Baptist Church in Glenrock at a later date. Cremation has taken place under the direction of Newcomer Family Funeral Home. Interment will be at Palisades Cemetery, Palisades, Colo.

She died Jan. 6, 2008, at Shepherd of the Valley Care Center in Casper.

She was born March 27, 1919, in West Sunbury, Clay Township, Pa., the daughter of Clarence Grant Conn and Elizabeth Ann Conn McCandless. She was raised and educated in West Sunbury, Pa., graduating from high school in

1936.

She married Glenn W. Young of Keister, Pa., on Aug. 17, 1935, at the Springdale Lutheran Church in West Sunbury, Pa. They were married 45 years.

During World War II, she took her husband's position at a local steel mill until the war was over. She then spent the next 25 years working in the health food business.

In 1976, she and her husband retired to Grand Junction, Colo. After his death in 1981, she relocated to Glenrock.

She is survived by her son, Gerald Lee Young, EIko, Nev.; a daughter, Connie Fay Parsons, Glenrock; two granddaughters, one great-granddaughter and one great-grandson.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Jesse Quay Conn, Virgil DeArld Conn, and Clarence Carlyle Conn; a sister, Sarah Margaret Conn, and her husband.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Glenrock's Senior Center or the Community Baptist Church, Glenrock.