Obituary of Belle Young

Funeral Services for Belle Young, August 6, 1932, 82, Kilgore, will be at 3:00 pm, Sunday, May 31, at Forest Home Baptist Church, Kilgore, with Reverend Buddy Duggins officiating. Burial will be at Hickory Grove Cemetery, Kilgore under direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. Mrs. Young died Thursday, May 28, 2015 in a Longview hospital. She was born August 6, 1932 in Snyder, Texas to the late Corrice Francis and Mary Lee Johnson Stovall. She married Carl D. Young, April 7, 1951 in Ballenger, TX and moved to Kilgore in 1998. She was a homemaker and enjoyed making Christmas crafts and crocheting. She was a member of Forest Home Baptist Church in Kilgore and was very active in her Sunday School class. She also enjoyed traveling with her church group. Besides her parents, Mrs. Young was also preceded in death by her husband, Carl D. Young on January 30, 2004, a brother, Clarence Stovall, and three sisters, Lois Turner, Maye Gardner and Althea Gibson. Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Ray and Terri Young, and Keith and Patty Young, all of Corpus Christi; a daughter and son-in-law, Diana and Roy Collins of Henderson; a sister, Lorene Fuller of Tacoma, Washington; eight grandchildren; five great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Dan Collins, Curt Collins, Chris Malone, Dane Young, Tom Young, Nick Rios and Roy Collins. The family will receive friends at the the church, prior to the funeral service from 2:00 pm until 3:00 pm, Sunday, May 31. If desired, memorials may be made to the Forest Home Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 1340, Kilgore, TX 75663-1340.