James Dewey Young

Funeral Services Celebrating the Life of Mr. James Dewey Young, 77, of West Monroe, LA will be held at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at the Beacon Church of Christ in West Monroe, LA with Chase Green and Bill Schooley officiating. Interment will follow in the Kilpatrick’s Serenity Gardens in West Monroe, LA under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home West Monroe, LA.

Mr. Young was born on April 2, 1943 and passed away on May 30, 2020. Dewey Young was a husband, grandfather, great-grandfather, uncle, cousin, and friend unlike anyone I have ever known. If you had the pleasure of knowing him then you know how big his heart was. When he first started having problems with his heart I thought well it’s certainly no surprise that he has a weak heart being he gave a piece of his heart away to every person he ever came in contact with. He made sure that we knew his name was daddy, nothing else was acceptable. He was a hard worker and expected everyone else to give 200% just like he did. He was an iron worker by trade and when he couldn’t find work close to home, he went to Kansas City, MO and even slept in a tent so that he could send every dollar home to the family. Whenever he had his first heart attack, it happened while he had stopped to help someone push a stalled vehicle off the road. He was always willing to lend a hand. It was not hard at all for us to accept that our Father God, because daddy modeled the love of our Heavenly Father. If I had to name one thing he taught us by example it was to be quick to forgive. He truly never kept any record of wrong. He has arrived in the place that he has worked his whole life to be in heaven with his Savior. Mr. Young was a member of the Beacon Church of Christ and is preceded in death by his parents, C.L. and Emma Lula Young; brothers, Robert Young, and Tommy Young; and by his sisters, Opal Ray and Shirley Truett.

Survivors include his wife, Bettie Tippen Young; seven daughters, Ginger Young Clark and husband, Dewayne, Cindy Young Bohannon, Wendy Young Traweek and husband, Carlton, Lindy Young Brown and husband, Allen, Melissa Young Boyd and husband, Chip, Jessica Young Hancock and husband, Terry, and Betsy Young Ortega and husband, Anthony; seventeen grandchildren; twenty-three great grandchildren., and a host of relatives and friends.

Pallbearers will be George “Ben” Bohannon, Bryant Boyd, Andrew Brown, Jacob Clark, Neal Schooley and Jarrod Schooley. Honorary Pallbearers will be Bobby Rowlan, Walter Beach, Tommy Dupree, Raymond Roberts, Anthony Ortega, and Terry Hancock.

Visitation will be held from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Monday, June 1, 2020 at Mulhearn Funeral Home West Monroe, LA.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)

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