Judson Obediah YOUNG
Obituary

Judson O. Young

SPRINGFIELD - Judson O. Young, 71, vice president and treasurer of J. O. Young Co., manufactures of ladders and eave troughts, died Tuesday at his home, 82 Mountain Rd., North Wilbraham.

A native of Nova Scotia, Young moved to Worcester at the age of 14 to work with his eight brothers who operated Young Brothers Ladder Co. The business at 927 West Boylston St., Worcester, is still in the family.

In 1900, at 16, he moved here to run a branch of the business. He bought the Springfield branch in 1910 and reliquished his interest in the Worcester company.

He was a son of Obediah J and Annie (Cashman) Young.

Young was vice president and director of the Springfield Cooperative Bank, member and trustee of St. James Methodist Church, and member of the Springfield Rotary Club, DeSoto Lodge of Odd Fellows and the American Ladder Institute.

He leaves his wife, Elsie (Briggs) Young; three daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Hooper of Newark, N.J., Mrs. Bertha Agerton of Wilbraham, and Mrs. Elizabeth Fallivotti of Springfield; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Patricia Ketchma of Springfield; a stepson, Alvin H. Burlingame in Ohio; two brothers, Parker Young of Monson, and Foster V. Young of West Springfield; a sister, Mrs. Mary Madden of Worcester and 10 grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Dickinson-Streeter Funeral Home. Burial will be in Hillcrest Park Cemetery.


Worcester Daily Telegram
Worcester, Massachusetts
April 26, 1956

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