Ivan Young

Ivan A. Young, age 86, a resident of Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at NHC Maury Regional Medical Center Transitional Care Center.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, January 6, 2023, at 1:00 PM at Cooke Funeral Home, 600 Old Fort Street, Cedar Grove, WV 25039. Burial will follow in Montgomery Memorial Park in London, West Virginia. A visitation will also be held on January 6 ^th from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM at Cooke Funeral Home. Heritage Funeral Home in Columbia is assisting the family with local arrangements.

Born on July 22, 1936, in Mammoth, West Virginia, Ivan was the son of the late Dennis Young and the late Lessie Landers Young. He was married to his beloved wife, Blondell (Hackney) Young for sixty-three years; she preceded in death on May 27, 2019. Ivan served in the United States Marine Corps from 1954 – 1962. He worked many years as a plant superintendent for Bethlehem Steel before retiring in 1998. He enjoyed family gatherings, hunting, fishing, listening to country music, going to the casino, and scratching lottery tickets. He was also known as “the Jewelry Man,” he loved buying costume jewelry and giving it away to females who touched his life in some way or another.

He is survived by his daughters: Carolyn (Dennis) Burns of Mt. Pleasant, TN, Rita (Edward) Ebling of Lewisburg, TN; son: Ivan Dwayne (Kimberly) Young of Nashville, TN; brother, Gary (Dreama) Young; sister, Kitty Collins, six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews whom he loved like his own children.

In addition to his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Harry Young, Geraldine “Jerry” Queen, Phyllis Sexton, Denny Edward Young, Joe Tallion, and great grandson, Robert Edward Padgett, III.

Pallbearers will be Mike Young, Roger Young, Kyle Padgett, Joe Justice, Jr., Matthew Burns, Edward Ebling, and Floyd Keeney.