Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Ernest Young

Sept. 19, 1922 - March 13, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 3/17/1996

SOUTH BEND - Services for Ernest Young, 73, of 5024 W. Western Ave., who died at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in St. Mary Community Hospital after an illness, will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Alford's Mortuary, where friends may call an hour prior to services. Mr. Young was a construction worker. He was born Sept. 19, 1922, in Memphis, Tenn.

 

He is survived by six daughters, Ernestine Cheek and Para Lee Plump, both of South Bend, Patrice Jacks of Cardville, Ky., and Janice, Jeannette and Cynthnia Young, all of Chicago; a son, Alan of Memphis; 27 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. A son, Robert, died in 1993. Mr. Young was a World War II Army veteran.