ROSS YOUNG

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for former Cape Girardeau businessman Ross Young, Route 1 Cedar Hills, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate, with burial in Hobbs Chapel Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.

Young, 92 years old, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 1991, at the Lutheran Home.

He was born July 25, 1898, near Burfordville, son of Robert and Ada Kinder Young. He and the former Hildegard Cambron were married Dec. 17, 1920, in Cape.

Young was owner/operator of Ross Young and Sons Dry Cleaners and Men's Clothing Store on Main Street for 50 years.

He and Walter H. Ford started Ford-Young Funeral Home Nov. 1, 1949. On July 1, 1953, Ford and a son, Walter J. Ford, bought out the Ross interest and changed the name to Ford and Sons Funeral Home.

Young had also been a cattleman and land owner. He had been a Democratic committeeman the past 50 years. Young received the honorary Kentucky Colonel Degree from the State of Kentucky. He was of the Baptist faith, and donated the land where Hobbs Chapel United Methodist Church was built.

Survivors include his wife; a son and daughter-in-law, E. Ross and Dorris Young of Cape; a daughter, Shirley Waggener Faiks of Houston, Tex.; a daughter-in-law, Pauline Young of Cape; a brother, Robert Young of Cape; nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, Russell R. Young in 1965; three brothers and three sisters.