Stephen F. Young, age 79, of Blue Springs, Missouri, passed away on Monday, November 9, 2020. Steve was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 2, 1941 and graduated from Blue Springs High School. He attended the University of Missouri at Rolla Before entering the US Air Force where he served his country in California and Iceland. He was a career US Federal Government employee who retired in December 1994 from the General Services Administration as a payroll technician. After retirement he worked eleven years as a computer lab assistant for the Blue River Community College.
A grave side service will be held at the Blue Springs Cemetery on a later date. Steve wished to be cremated with one third of his ashes buried next to his parents, Wilbur Lewis Young and Marian Esther Young at the Blue Springs Cemetery. He wished that the other two thirds to be spread at the top of Sunshine Peak Steamboat Springs, Colorado his favorite ski mountain and over Hanauma Bay Oahu, Hawaii. Steve loved adventure and travel. He snow skied many times in Colorado as well as once in Nagano, Japan, Aleyeska, Alaska, Badgastein, Austria, and in Idaho, New Mexico, California, and Nevada. He traveled to Europe eight times and the Caribbean seven times. In 2008, he took his trip of a lifetime to New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand he did the AJ Hackett Sky Swing and the Shotover Jet Boat in Queenstown. All together he visited twenty-four foreign countries as well as all but four states. He loved to swim, snow ski, and bicycle ride.
Steve was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church Blue Springs. Although he never married, he put in many hours volunteering to help others. He was one of the founders of the Independents Singles Ministry at his church. He did the monthly newsletter for many years. He served as the Kansas City Ski Club secretary for three years and several years as the club photo committee chairman. He rode the Bike MS Ride five times and put in many volunteer hours with the MS Society. He rode the Tour de Cure Bike Ride four times for diabetics. Travel photography and gardening were two of Steve’s favorite hobbies.
Survivors and Steve’s brother Roderick and his wife Mary of Peculiar, Missouri, sister Jeanne Pauly and her late husband Robert of Ellsworth, Maine, three nieces Erin, Sarah, Michele, and nephew Rod Jr. and their families.
Donations may be given in Steve’s name to the Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland, 8900 State Line Rd #320, Leawood, Kansas 66206
Arrangements: Cullen Funeral Home, Raymore, Missouri
A grave side service will be held at the Blue Springs Cemetery on a later date. Steve wished to be cremated with one third of his ashes buried next to his parents, Wilbur Lewis Young and Marian Esther Young at the Blue Springs Cemetery. He wished that the other two thirds to be spread at the top of Sunshine Peak Steamboat Springs, Colorado his favorite ski mountain and over Hanauma Bay Oahu, Hawaii. Steve loved adventure and travel. He snow skied many times in Colorado as well as once in Nagano, Japan, Aleyeska, Alaska, Badgastein, Austria, and in Idaho, New Mexico, California, and Nevada. He traveled to Europe eight times and the Caribbean seven times. In 2008, he took his trip of a lifetime to New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand he did the AJ Hackett Sky Swing and the Shotover Jet Boat in Queenstown. All together he visited twenty-four foreign countries as well as all but four states. He loved to swim, snow ski, and bicycle ride.
Steve was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church Blue Springs. Although he never married, he put in many hours volunteering to help others. He was one of the founders of the Independents Singles Ministry at his church. He did the monthly newsletter for many years. He served as the Kansas City Ski Club secretary for three years and several years as the club photo committee chairman. He rode the Bike MS Ride five times and put in many volunteer hours with the MS Society. He rode the Tour de Cure Bike Ride four times for diabetics. Travel photography and gardening were two of Steve’s favorite hobbies.
Survivors and Steve’s brother Roderick and his wife Mary of Peculiar, Missouri, sister Jeanne Pauly and her late husband Robert of Ellsworth, Maine, three nieces Erin, Sarah, Michele, and nephew Rod Jr. and their families.
Donations may be given in Steve’s name to the Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland, 8900 State Line Rd #320, Leawood, Kansas 66206
Arrangements: Cullen Funeral Home, Raymore, Missouri
Stephen F. Young, age 79, of Blue Springs, Missouri, passed away on Monday, November 9, 2020. Steve was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 2, 1941 and graduated from Blue Springs High School. He attended the University of Missouri at Rolla Before entering the US Air Force where he served his country in California and Iceland. He was a career US Federal Government employee who retired in December 1994 from the General Services Administration as a payroll technician. After retirement he worked eleven years as a computer lab assistant for the Blue River Community College.
A grave side service will be held at the Blue Springs Cemetery on a later date. Steve wished to be cremated with one third of his ashes buried next to his parents, Wilbur Lewis Young and Marian Esther Young at the Blue Springs Cemetery. He wished that the other two thirds to be spread at the top of Sunshine Peak Steamboat Springs, Colorado his favorite ski mountain and over Hanauma Bay Oahu, Hawaii. Steve loved adventure and travel. He snow skied many times in Colorado as well as once in Nagano, Japan, Aleyeska, Alaska, Badgastein, Austria, and in Idaho, New Mexico, California, and Nevada. He traveled to Europe eight times and the Caribbean seven times. In 2008, he took his trip of a lifetime to New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand he did the AJ Hackett Sky Swing and the Shotover Jet Boat in Queenstown. All together he visited twenty-four foreign countries as well as all but four states. He loved to swim, snow ski, and bicycle ride.
Steve was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church Blue Springs. Although he never married, he put in many hours volunteering to help others. He was one of the founders of the Independents Singles Ministry at his church. He did the monthly newsletter for many years. He served as the Kansas City Ski Club secretary for three years and several years as the club photo committee chairman. He rode the Bike MS Ride five times and put in many volunteer hours with the MS Society. He rode the Tour de Cure Bike Ride four times for diabetics. Travel photography and gardening were two of Steve’s favorite hobbies.
Survivors and Steve’s brother Roderick and his wife Mary of Peculiar, Missouri, sister Jeanne Pauly and her late husband Robert of Ellsworth, Maine, three nieces Erin, Sarah, Michele, and nephew Rod Jr. and their families.
Donations may be given in Steve’s name to the Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland, 8900 State Line Rd #320, Leawood, Kansas 66206
Arrangements: Cullen Funeral Home, Raymore, Missouri
A grave side service will be held at the Blue Springs Cemetery on a later date. Steve wished to be cremated with one third of his ashes buried next to his parents, Wilbur Lewis Young and Marian Esther Young at the Blue Springs Cemetery. He wished that the other two thirds to be spread at the top of Sunshine Peak Steamboat Springs, Colorado his favorite ski mountain and over Hanauma Bay Oahu, Hawaii. Steve loved adventure and travel. He snow skied many times in Colorado as well as once in Nagano, Japan, Aleyeska, Alaska, Badgastein, Austria, and in Idaho, New Mexico, California, and Nevada. He traveled to Europe eight times and the Caribbean seven times. In 2008, he took his trip of a lifetime to New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand he did the AJ Hackett Sky Swing and the Shotover Jet Boat in Queenstown. All together he visited twenty-four foreign countries as well as all but four states. He loved to swim, snow ski, and bicycle ride.
Steve was a lifelong member of the First United Methodist Church Blue Springs. Although he never married, he put in many hours volunteering to help others. He was one of the founders of the Independents Singles Ministry at his church. He did the monthly newsletter for many years. He served as the Kansas City Ski Club secretary for three years and several years as the club photo committee chairman. He rode the Bike MS Ride five times and put in many volunteer hours with the MS Society. He rode the Tour de Cure Bike Ride four times for diabetics. Travel photography and gardening were two of Steve’s favorite hobbies.
Survivors and Steve’s brother Roderick and his wife Mary of Peculiar, Missouri, sister Jeanne Pauly and her late husband Robert of Ellsworth, Maine, three nieces Erin, Sarah, Michele, and nephew Rod Jr. and their families.
Donations may be given in Steve’s name to the Parkinson Foundation of the Heartland, 8900 State Line Rd #320, Leawood, Kansas 66206
Arrangements: Cullen Funeral Home, Raymore, Missouri
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