Lifelong McCulloch County resident, businessman and stock farmer Arthur Young, Jr. passed away on the longest day of the year, June 21, 2012. He was 86 years old. Junior, as he was known to the hundreds of friends, customers and the teenagers who worked after school at Young Oil Company in the 50 years that this business thrived, loved his family and the land he grew up on. Young served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was assigned to General McArthur’s general headquarters in Japan immediately after the bombing of Hiroshima ended this conflict. As a farm boy from Texas, who had never traveled farther than a few miles from home, this experience was to have a profound impact on him and served as the basis for more than a few stories about the U.S. occupation of Japan and its effect on geopolitics. Even 70 years later, he reveled in his experience of being a part of the Greatest Generation. After being honorably discharged from the service, Junior came home to the farm in West Sweden, where his Swedish immigrant grandfather, August Young, had first settled. While he loved working with livestock and had an innate ability to judge and enhance sheep, cattle and swine production, he also had a burning ambition to build a business that would provide security for his young family.
In the early 1950s, with a little capital, skills learned from the “GI school” and a relentless work ethic, Young opened his first service station on Highway 87 in Brady, and Young Oil Company began building a customer base that would spread throughout West Texas. This business grew from a small Cosden and then Fina service station to include multiple stations, butane, propane, gas and oil transport services, Farm Bureau products and fuel products for farmers and ranchers in the service areas.
As his service station business grew, Arthur began to realize that what he loved doing, farming and ranching, was how he was going to “retire.” After many years of 15 hour days, he quietly acquired all of the land in the original parcel of land that his grandfather had owned. In 1965 he began to slowly transition from businessman to stock farmer. After closing Young Oil Company, he continued this sheep and cattle enterprise until three years ago when an accident precluded his daily trip to work his beloved farm.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Jo Ella and his parents, Arthur Young, Sr. and his wife Marie of Brady. He is survived by his brother, Jaryl Young and his wife, Sharon, of Abilene; three children, Kathy Richardson and husband, Bob, of Austin, Arthur Gaylon Young and loved one, Sandy Earle, of Dallas, Jim Young and wife, Dolores, of Austin; two grandchildren, Christopher Young of Tokyo, Japan and Jazmyn Lynch and husband, Ryan, of Austin; great-grandson, Asher Lynch, of Austin and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Services were held at 10 a.m., Monday, June 25, at Heritage Funeral Home in Brady. Burial followed at Rest Haven Cemetery. Please view Mr. Young’s online memorial at www.heritagefuneraltx.com.
Published in Brady Standard – Herald June 27, 2012
Contributor: Jacqueline Hill (47941945) • [email protected]
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In the early 1950s, with a little capital, skills learned from the “GI school” and a relentless work ethic, Young opened his first service station on Highway 87 in Brady, and Young Oil Company began building a customer base that would spread throughout West Texas. This business grew from a small Cosden and then Fina service station to include multiple stations, butane, propane, gas and oil transport services, Farm Bureau products and fuel products for farmers and ranchers in the service areas.
As his service station business grew, Arthur began to realize that what he loved doing, farming and ranching, was how he was going to “retire.” After many years of 15 hour days, he quietly acquired all of the land in the original parcel of land that his grandfather had owned. In 1965 he began to slowly transition from businessman to stock farmer. After closing Young Oil Company, he continued this sheep and cattle enterprise until three years ago when an accident precluded his daily trip to work his beloved farm.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Jo Ella and his parents, Arthur Young, Sr. and his wife Marie of Brady. He is survived by his brother, Jaryl Young and his wife, Sharon, of Abilene; three children, Kathy Richardson and husband, Bob, of Austin, Arthur Gaylon Young and loved one, Sandy Earle, of Dallas, Jim Young and wife, Dolores, of Austin; two grandchildren, Christopher Young of Tokyo, Japan and Jazmyn Lynch and husband, Ryan, of Austin; great-grandson, Asher Lynch, of Austin and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Services were held at 10 a.m., Monday, June 25, at Heritage Funeral Home in Brady. Burial followed at Rest Haven Cemetery. Please view Mr. Young’s online memorial at www.heritagefuneraltx.com.
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Lifelong McCulloch County resident, businessman and stock farmer Arthur Young, Jr. passed away on the longest day of the year, June 21, 2012. He was 86 years old. Junior, as he was known to the hundreds of friends, customers and the teenagers who worked after school at Young Oil Company in the 50 years that this business thrived, loved his family and the land he grew up on. Young served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was assigned to General McArthur’s general headquarters in Japan immediately after the bombing of Hiroshima ended this conflict. As a farm boy from Texas, who had never traveled farther than a few miles from home, this experience was to have a profound impact on him and served as the basis for more than a few stories about the U.S. occupation of Japan and its effect on geopolitics. Even 70 years later, he reveled in his experience of being a part of the Greatest Generation. After being honorably discharged from the service, Junior came home to the farm in West Sweden, where his Swedish immigrant grandfather, August Young, had first settled. While he loved working with livestock and had an innate ability to judge and enhance sheep, cattle and swine production, he also had a burning ambition to build a business that would provide security for his young family.
In the early 1950s, with a little capital, skills learned from the “GI school” and a relentless work ethic, Young opened his first service station on Highway 87 in Brady, and Young Oil Company began building a customer base that would spread throughout West Texas. This business grew from a small Cosden and then Fina service station to include multiple stations, butane, propane, gas and oil transport services, Farm Bureau products and fuel products for farmers and ranchers in the service areas.
As his service station business grew, Arthur began to realize that what he loved doing, farming and ranching, was how he was going to “retire.” After many years of 15 hour days, he quietly acquired all of the land in the original parcel of land that his grandfather had owned. In 1965 he began to slowly transition from businessman to stock farmer. After closing Young Oil Company, he continued this sheep and cattle enterprise until three years ago when an accident precluded his daily trip to work his beloved farm.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Jo Ella and his parents, Arthur Young, Sr. and his wife Marie of Brady. He is survived by his brother, Jaryl Young and his wife, Sharon, of Abilene; three children, Kathy Richardson and husband, Bob, of Austin, Arthur Gaylon Young and loved one, Sandy Earle, of Dallas, Jim Young and wife, Dolores, of Austin; two grandchildren, Christopher Young of Tokyo, Japan and Jazmyn Lynch and husband, Ryan, of Austin; great-grandson, Asher Lynch, of Austin and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Services were held at 10 a.m., Monday, June 25, at Heritage Funeral Home in Brady. Burial followed at Rest Haven Cemetery. Please view Mr. Young’s online memorial at www.heritagefuneraltx.com.
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In the early 1950s, with a little capital, skills learned from the “GI school” and a relentless work ethic, Young opened his first service station on Highway 87 in Brady, and Young Oil Company began building a customer base that would spread throughout West Texas. This business grew from a small Cosden and then Fina service station to include multiple stations, butane, propane, gas and oil transport services, Farm Bureau products and fuel products for farmers and ranchers in the service areas.
As his service station business grew, Arthur began to realize that what he loved doing, farming and ranching, was how he was going to “retire.” After many years of 15 hour days, he quietly acquired all of the land in the original parcel of land that his grandfather had owned. In 1965 he began to slowly transition from businessman to stock farmer. After closing Young Oil Company, he continued this sheep and cattle enterprise until three years ago when an accident precluded his daily trip to work his beloved farm.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Jo Ella and his parents, Arthur Young, Sr. and his wife Marie of Brady. He is survived by his brother, Jaryl Young and his wife, Sharon, of Abilene; three children, Kathy Richardson and husband, Bob, of Austin, Arthur Gaylon Young and loved one, Sandy Earle, of Dallas, Jim Young and wife, Dolores, of Austin; two grandchildren, Christopher Young of Tokyo, Japan and Jazmyn Lynch and husband, Ryan, of Austin; great-grandson, Asher Lynch, of Austin and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Services were held at 10 a.m., Monday, June 25, at Heritage Funeral Home in Brady. Burial followed at Rest Haven Cemetery. Please view Mr. Young’s online memorial at www.heritagefuneraltx.com.
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