Bill's wife, Laly, wrote: Bill had a beautiful voice, He sang tenor. He used to sing and play his guitar, everyone loved listening to him, One of his favorite songs that he sang was, The Lonesome Cattle Call. It was so beautiful, because he could sing so high. He wasn't able to play the guitar anymore after an accident that took the feelings from his left hand's fingers."
Willis Young's Eulogy
By: Karma Berg
My father Willis Walter Young was born August 6th 1935 to his parents: Neal Young and Freeda Mae Ahlstrom Young in Tropic, Utah. He was their 3rd son.
When he was a baby, his mother became too ill to take care of him and the other boys. The Bartons, Leo Lorenzo Barton and Karma Johnson Barton, raised him as their own. He was then called Billy Barton.
His family, the Bartons, would perform at dances and functions in Tropic, Utah.
His Aunt owned a store in Tropic and he asked her one time "What does that candy taste like?" and she said "I don't know". My Father said "When I grow up I am going to own a store and know what all the candy tastes like."
He loved to go to his Grandmother's house and play with a rock shaped like a peanut. Thus began his love of rocks.
When he was 6 years old the Bartons moved to St. George, Utah. He grew up there and went to Dixie High School.
When he was in high school he was doing weight lifting and the coach was teaching another student acrobatics so he could go with the circus side show that summer but that boy's parents didn't want him to go so the coach asked my father if he would go. My dad asked the Bartons and they said he could. The circus taught him to climb up a 100 foot pole and do the flag with his body and other acts. They mostly performed back east in New York and such. They wanted him to go to Europe but he declined. My father took a bunch of silver dollars with him and he would trade them in for $2 bills and with that he bought a brand new 1955 Oldsmobile.
He married Sharon Twitchell in 1956. With Sharon he had 9 children.
He married Laly Marlene Briscoe and had five children.
He worked at many jobs: he was a respiratory therapist, buffet carver, cook and a siding applicator. He liked being a siding applicator best because he liked to improve the look of houses.
My Father loved to read books, do puzzle books, jigsaw puzzles and watching movies. He loved eating popcorn, ice cream and scrambled eggs.
I remember as a child dad would drive us off into the hills and hand us a 5 gallon bucket to collect pretty rocks and then we would haul them back to the truck. He liked to use the rocks we collected and shape them like eggs.
He also loved to take us fishing and camping.
He loved his friends and family very much and we will all miss his guiding light.
Bill's daughter-in-law wrote: Bill was a wonderful grandfather and a loving husband to his wife, Laly. I was lucky enough to have become a part of this family and will never let it go. Dad was an amazing father--a loving, peaceful man. He was there through the births of my babies, just sitting in his chair reading a book and once in a while would look up and make sure all was well and then continue reading. He and I used to go fishing every day when I got off work. We would go fishing off Caplinger bridge. Most of the time we only caught little sun fish but it was still fun. He is also the one who got me hooked on watching Charmed--he got like 2 seasons of it and we would watch it almost every night. I miss those days so very much.
Bill's favorite hymn was "High on The Mountain Top". His great grandfather Joel Hills Johnson wrote it.
He also enjoyed songs like "Ghost Riders in the Sky" sung by The Sons of the Pioneers, "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans and "There is no Tomorrow" by Joe Feeney.
Bill was raised by the Leo Lorenzo and Karma Johnson Barton family from the age of 2 weeks old because his mother was not healthy enough to take care of him. Bill became their 11th child. Although he was never formally adopted, he was always thought of as one of their children.
While Bill was a young man, he joined the circus for a while as a trapeze artist. His young nieces and nephews thought it was exciting to have an uncle who was in the circus, though I am not sure that any of us ever watched him perform.
Clickable links to the memorials of Bill’s foster parents who raised him from the time he was an infant:
Foster father: Leo Lorenzo Barton
Foster Mother: Karma Johnson Barton
Willis Young's Eulogy
By: Karma Berg
My father Willis Walter Young was born August 6th 1935 to his parents: Neal Young and Freeda Mae Ahlstrom Young in Tropic, Utah. He was their 3rd son.
When he was a baby, his mother became too ill to take care of him and the other boys. The Bartons, Leo Lorenzo Barton and Karma Johnson Barton, raised him as their own. He was then called Billy Barton.
His family, the Bartons, would perform at dances and functions in Tropic, Utah.
His Aunt owned a store in Tropic and he asked her one time "What does that candy taste like?" and she said "I don't know". My Father said "When I grow up I am going to own a store and know what all the candy tastes like."
He loved to go to his Grandmother's house and play with a rock shaped like a peanut. Thus began his love of rocks.
When he was 6 years old the Bartons moved to St. George, Utah. He grew up there and went to Dixie High School.
When he was in high school he was doing weight lifting and the coach was teaching another student acrobatics so he could go with the circus side show that summer but that boy's parents didn't want him to go so the coach asked my father if he would go. My dad asked the Bartons and they said he could. The circus taught him to climb up a 100 foot pole and do the flag with his body and other acts. They mostly performed back east in New York and such. They wanted him to go to Europe but he declined. My father took a bunch of silver dollars with him and he would trade them in for $2 bills and with that he bought a brand new 1955 Oldsmobile.
He married Sharon Twitchell in 1956. With Sharon he had 9 children.
He married Laly Marlene Briscoe and had five children.
He worked at many jobs: he was a respiratory therapist, buffet carver, cook and a siding applicator. He liked being a siding applicator best because he liked to improve the look of houses.
My Father loved to read books, do puzzle books, jigsaw puzzles and watching movies. He loved eating popcorn, ice cream and scrambled eggs.
I remember as a child dad would drive us off into the hills and hand us a 5 gallon bucket to collect pretty rocks and then we would haul them back to the truck. He liked to use the rocks we collected and shape them like eggs.
He also loved to take us fishing and camping.
He loved his friends and family very much and we will all miss his guiding light.
Bill's daughter-in-law wrote: Bill was a wonderful grandfather and a loving husband to his wife, Laly. I was lucky enough to have become a part of this family and will never let it go. Dad was an amazing father--a loving, peaceful man. He was there through the births of my babies, just sitting in his chair reading a book and once in a while would look up and make sure all was well and then continue reading. He and I used to go fishing every day when I got off work. We would go fishing off Caplinger bridge. Most of the time we only caught little sun fish but it was still fun. He is also the one who got me hooked on watching Charmed--he got like 2 seasons of it and we would watch it almost every night. I miss those days so very much.
Bill's favorite hymn was "High on The Mountain Top". His great grandfather Joel Hills Johnson wrote it.
He also enjoyed songs like "Ghost Riders in the Sky" sung by The Sons of the Pioneers, "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans and "There is no Tomorrow" by Joe Feeney.
Bill was raised by the Leo Lorenzo and Karma Johnson Barton family from the age of 2 weeks old because his mother was not healthy enough to take care of him. Bill became their 11th child. Although he was never formally adopted, he was always thought of as one of their children.
While Bill was a young man, he joined the circus for a while as a trapeze artist. His young nieces and nephews thought it was exciting to have an uncle who was in the circus, though I am not sure that any of us ever watched him perform.
Clickable links to the memorials of Bill’s foster parents who raised him from the time he was an infant:
Foster father: Leo Lorenzo Barton
Foster Mother: Karma Johnson Barton
Bill's wife, Laly, wrote: Bill had a beautiful voice, He sang tenor. He used to sing and play his guitar, everyone loved listening to him, One of his favorite songs that he sang was, The Lonesome Cattle Call. It was so beautiful, because he could sing so high. He wasn't able to play the guitar anymore after an accident that took the feelings from his left hand's fingers."
Willis Young's Eulogy
By: Karma Berg
My father Willis Walter Young was born August 6th 1935 to his parents: Neal Young and Freeda Mae Ahlstrom Young in Tropic, Utah. He was their 3rd son.
When he was a baby, his mother became too ill to take care of him and the other boys. The Bartons, Leo Lorenzo Barton and Karma Johnson Barton, raised him as their own. He was then called Billy Barton.
His family, the Bartons, would perform at dances and functions in Tropic, Utah.
His Aunt owned a store in Tropic and he asked her one time "What does that candy taste like?" and she said "I don't know". My Father said "When I grow up I am going to own a store and know what all the candy tastes like."
He loved to go to his Grandmother's house and play with a rock shaped like a peanut. Thus began his love of rocks.
When he was 6 years old the Bartons moved to St. George, Utah. He grew up there and went to Dixie High School.
When he was in high school he was doing weight lifting and the coach was teaching another student acrobatics so he could go with the circus side show that summer but that boy's parents didn't want him to go so the coach asked my father if he would go. My dad asked the Bartons and they said he could. The circus taught him to climb up a 100 foot pole and do the flag with his body and other acts. They mostly performed back east in New York and such. They wanted him to go to Europe but he declined. My father took a bunch of silver dollars with him and he would trade them in for $2 bills and with that he bought a brand new 1955 Oldsmobile.
He married Sharon Twitchell in 1956. With Sharon he had 9 children.
He married Laly Marlene Briscoe and had five children.
He worked at many jobs: he was a respiratory therapist, buffet carver, cook and a siding applicator. He liked being a siding applicator best because he liked to improve the look of houses.
My Father loved to read books, do puzzle books, jigsaw puzzles and watching movies. He loved eating popcorn, ice cream and scrambled eggs.
I remember as a child dad would drive us off into the hills and hand us a 5 gallon bucket to collect pretty rocks and then we would haul them back to the truck. He liked to use the rocks we collected and shape them like eggs.
He also loved to take us fishing and camping.
He loved his friends and family very much and we will all miss his guiding light.
Bill's daughter-in-law wrote: Bill was a wonderful grandfather and a loving husband to his wife, Laly. I was lucky enough to have become a part of this family and will never let it go. Dad was an amazing father--a loving, peaceful man. He was there through the births of my babies, just sitting in his chair reading a book and once in a while would look up and make sure all was well and then continue reading. He and I used to go fishing every day when I got off work. We would go fishing off Caplinger bridge. Most of the time we only caught little sun fish but it was still fun. He is also the one who got me hooked on watching Charmed--he got like 2 seasons of it and we would watch it almost every night. I miss those days so very much.
Bill's favorite hymn was "High on The Mountain Top". His great grandfather Joel Hills Johnson wrote it.
He also enjoyed songs like "Ghost Riders in the Sky" sung by The Sons of the Pioneers, "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans and "There is no Tomorrow" by Joe Feeney.
Bill was raised by the Leo Lorenzo and Karma Johnson Barton family from the age of 2 weeks old because his mother was not healthy enough to take care of him. Bill became their 11th child. Although he was never formally adopted, he was always thought of as one of their children.
While Bill was a young man, he joined the circus for a while as a trapeze artist. His young nieces and nephews thought it was exciting to have an uncle who was in the circus, though I am not sure that any of us ever watched him perform.
Clickable links to the memorials of Bill’s foster parents who raised him from the time he was an infant:
Foster father: Leo Lorenzo Barton
Foster Mother: Karma Johnson Barton
Willis Young's Eulogy
By: Karma Berg
My father Willis Walter Young was born August 6th 1935 to his parents: Neal Young and Freeda Mae Ahlstrom Young in Tropic, Utah. He was their 3rd son.
When he was a baby, his mother became too ill to take care of him and the other boys. The Bartons, Leo Lorenzo Barton and Karma Johnson Barton, raised him as their own. He was then called Billy Barton.
His family, the Bartons, would perform at dances and functions in Tropic, Utah.
His Aunt owned a store in Tropic and he asked her one time "What does that candy taste like?" and she said "I don't know". My Father said "When I grow up I am going to own a store and know what all the candy tastes like."
He loved to go to his Grandmother's house and play with a rock shaped like a peanut. Thus began his love of rocks.
When he was 6 years old the Bartons moved to St. George, Utah. He grew up there and went to Dixie High School.
When he was in high school he was doing weight lifting and the coach was teaching another student acrobatics so he could go with the circus side show that summer but that boy's parents didn't want him to go so the coach asked my father if he would go. My dad asked the Bartons and they said he could. The circus taught him to climb up a 100 foot pole and do the flag with his body and other acts. They mostly performed back east in New York and such. They wanted him to go to Europe but he declined. My father took a bunch of silver dollars with him and he would trade them in for $2 bills and with that he bought a brand new 1955 Oldsmobile.
He married Sharon Twitchell in 1956. With Sharon he had 9 children.
He married Laly Marlene Briscoe and had five children.
He worked at many jobs: he was a respiratory therapist, buffet carver, cook and a siding applicator. He liked being a siding applicator best because he liked to improve the look of houses.
My Father loved to read books, do puzzle books, jigsaw puzzles and watching movies. He loved eating popcorn, ice cream and scrambled eggs.
I remember as a child dad would drive us off into the hills and hand us a 5 gallon bucket to collect pretty rocks and then we would haul them back to the truck. He liked to use the rocks we collected and shape them like eggs.
He also loved to take us fishing and camping.
He loved his friends and family very much and we will all miss his guiding light.
Bill's daughter-in-law wrote: Bill was a wonderful grandfather and a loving husband to his wife, Laly. I was lucky enough to have become a part of this family and will never let it go. Dad was an amazing father--a loving, peaceful man. He was there through the births of my babies, just sitting in his chair reading a book and once in a while would look up and make sure all was well and then continue reading. He and I used to go fishing every day when I got off work. We would go fishing off Caplinger bridge. Most of the time we only caught little sun fish but it was still fun. He is also the one who got me hooked on watching Charmed--he got like 2 seasons of it and we would watch it almost every night. I miss those days so very much.
Bill's favorite hymn was "High on The Mountain Top". His great grandfather Joel Hills Johnson wrote it.
He also enjoyed songs like "Ghost Riders in the Sky" sung by The Sons of the Pioneers, "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers & Dale Evans and "There is no Tomorrow" by Joe Feeney.
Bill was raised by the Leo Lorenzo and Karma Johnson Barton family from the age of 2 weeks old because his mother was not healthy enough to take care of him. Bill became their 11th child. Although he was never formally adopted, he was always thought of as one of their children.
While Bill was a young man, he joined the circus for a while as a trapeze artist. His young nieces and nephews thought it was exciting to have an uncle who was in the circus, though I am not sure that any of us ever watched him perform.
Clickable links to the memorials of Bill’s foster parents who raised him from the time he was an infant:
Foster father: Leo Lorenzo Barton
Foster Mother: Karma Johnson Barton
