Louise Young

Louise Matheson Young passed away January 22, 2017, in Tempe, Arizona.  She was born April 12, 1917, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to John B. and Edna Hazen Matheson, the third of six children.  She was educated in the Salt Lake City school system, and graduated from West High School in 1934 after serving as Senior Class Vice-President.  After graduation, she was employed as a secretary and bookkeeper until her call to fulfill an LDS mission to Great Britain in 1938-39, under the presidency of President Hugh B. Brown.  Upon her return she attended the University of Utah.

She married her high school sweetheart, Harold E. Young, Jr., in the Salt Lake Temple on September 16, 1940, and continued working at the Utah Dept. of Employment Security and the Railroad Retirement Board in Chicago to assist her husband in obtaining his Doctorate of Medicine degree from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1943.

Louise delayed her further education to raise her five children.  Then she returned to the University of Utah where she received her BS degree and her Masters degree in Social Work.  She was an eager student and earned the Phi Beta Kappa, and the Phi Kappa Phi awards.  She served in the marriage and Family Counseling Department of the University of Utah for several years, and left to do private counseling, and then joined her husband at his Midvale Medical Center to become his office manager.

She was a faithful and devoted member of the LDS Church, and served in many capacities that included Primary, Cub Scouts, Relief Society, Sunday School, Young Women, and was a member of the Adult Correlation Committee of the Church for five years.  Her most cherished calling was ward organist where she served for over thirty years.  She also served in many other music callings.  She was a member of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and a member of the Salt Lake County and Utah State Medical Auxiliary organizations.

She considered her greatest accomplishments to be the wife and helpmeet of her devoted husband, Harold, during their 57 years of marriage, and the raising and nurturing of her five wonderful children and their families.  She found great joy in their devotion to the Church and their desire for education and their developing their musical talents.

Louise and Harold loved to travel, and they spent many wonderful vacations traveling to every continent of the world.  Their years together were filled with joy and happiness.

She is survived by her daughters, Carole (Mrs. Gerald Ford), and Robin (Mrs. Bruce Goldthorpe) both of Tempe, Arizona, her sons David (Diane) of Holladay, Kevin (Maurine) of Bountiful, Utah, and her daughter-in-law Margaret (Mrs. Gerald Tischner) of Sandy, Utah.  She leaves twenty grandchildren and forty-two great-grandchildren.  She is also survived by a brother, Earl Matheson (Gayle) of Salt Lake City.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold, a son, Robert Matheson Young, a stillborn daughter, Rebecca, her sister, Dorothy Allsop, and a brother, John B. Matheson, Jr.

In lieu of flowers, make a donation to the charity of your choice.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, February 4, 2017, at the Midvale 1st Ward, 308 West 7500 South, Midvale.  Visitation 10:00-11:30 AM; funeral 12:00 PM. Interment, Midvale City Cemetery.