1942
Suzanne
2007
Suzanne Young
April 9, 1942 — June 30, 2007
Suzanne Odom Young, 65, passed away at her home in Columbia, Tennessee early Saturday, June 30, 2007, after a long battle with ovarian cancer.
A memorial service for Mrs. Young will be conducted 7:00 pm Tuesday, July 3 at the Belmont Church, 68 Music Square East, in Nashville with Casey Baluss officiating.
Visitation will be held Sunday from 4:00 to 8:00 pm at Williams Funeral Home in Columbia, Tennessee and on Tuesday from 6:00 ? 6:45 p.m. at Belmont Church.
She was born April 9, 1942 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The daughter of an Air Force bomber pilot, Suzanne traveled the world as a military brat, living in occupied Japan and Recife, Brazil before her father was assigned to the newly opened Air Force base near Little Rock, Arkansas in 1953. She graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1960, attended Harding College in nearby Searcy before receiving a nursing diploma from the Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Little Rock.
In 1963 she married Pat Ralston, with whom she had two sons. After the marriage ended, Suzanne continued her career as a registered nurse in Arizona and Arkansas before taking a job selling oncology pharmaceuticals for Bristol Myers in 1981. In 1982 she married Stan Young, and together they moved to Tennessee in 1987. There Suzanne helped found A Woman's Place Clinic in Columbia in 1994, serving as co-director of that organization until 2004; while in that role, she led Middle Tennessee Nurses for Health Education. Suzanne was an active and devoted member of Belmont Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and her mission work took her to China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Israel.
Survivors include her husband, Stan Young of Columbia; son Patrick Ralston, his wife Laura, and their three sons, of North Little Rock, Arkansas; son Scott Young, his wife Traci, and three children, of Spring Hill, Tennessee; brother, Doug Odom of Greenbrier, Arkansas; stepdaughter Amy Byrd and her husband Roy of Mesa, Arizona. She was preceded in death by her father, Lt. Col. A.D. Odom USAF, Retired; her mother, Eloise Odom Hennessey; and her stepfather, Charles Hennessey.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to A Woman's Place, 1020 S. Garden Street, Columbia, TN 38401.
A memorial service for Mrs. Young will be conducted 7:00 pm Tuesday, July 3 at the Belmont Church, 68 Music Square East, in Nashville with Casey Baluss officiating.
Visitation will be held Sunday from 4:00 to 8:00 pm at Williams Funeral Home in Columbia, Tennessee and on Tuesday from 6:00 ? 6:45 p.m. at Belmont Church.
She was born April 9, 1942 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The daughter of an Air Force bomber pilot, Suzanne traveled the world as a military brat, living in occupied Japan and Recife, Brazil before her father was assigned to the newly opened Air Force base near Little Rock, Arkansas in 1953. She graduated from North Little Rock High School in 1960, attended Harding College in nearby Searcy before receiving a nursing diploma from the Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Little Rock.
In 1963 she married Pat Ralston, with whom she had two sons. After the marriage ended, Suzanne continued her career as a registered nurse in Arizona and Arkansas before taking a job selling oncology pharmaceuticals for Bristol Myers in 1981. In 1982 she married Stan Young, and together they moved to Tennessee in 1987. There Suzanne helped found A Woman's Place Clinic in Columbia in 1994, serving as co-director of that organization until 2004; while in that role, she led Middle Tennessee Nurses for Health Education. Suzanne was an active and devoted member of Belmont Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and her mission work took her to China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Israel.
Survivors include her husband, Stan Young of Columbia; son Patrick Ralston, his wife Laura, and their three sons, of North Little Rock, Arkansas; son Scott Young, his wife Traci, and three children, of Spring Hill, Tennessee; brother, Doug Odom of Greenbrier, Arkansas; stepdaughter Amy Byrd and her husband Roy of Mesa, Arizona. She was preceded in death by her father, Lt. Col. A.D. Odom USAF, Retired; her mother, Eloise Odom Hennessey; and her stepfather, Charles Hennessey.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to A Woman's Place, 1020 S. Garden Street, Columbia, TN 38401.
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