Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Young, Helen January 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Helen Young

Services: January 15, 2005

Helen Young, loved and cherished by her family, died at the age of 95 
surrounded by loved ones. Helen was born in 1909 and grew up in the back 
country of San Diego on her parents cattle ranch. She attended the University 
of California at Berkley where she graduated Magna Cum Laud. While teaching 
high school in Stockton, she met and married her husband of 65 years, John 
Young. When John and Helen moved to Bakersfield to establish Johns law 
practice, Helens focus shifted from her own career to that of supporting her 
husband and raising their three daughters. 

Helen demonstrated exuberance for life and a passion for learning. Her love of 
dancing, music, languages, horseback riding, the out-of-door, and travelingall 
of these she shared with, and passed on to, her family. She was an integral 
part of not only her childrens lives but the lives of her 6 grandchildren; she 
was a motivator, encourage, and financier of their education and travel 
experiences. She came to be lovingly known as Mom-mom.

Helen and John moved to San Diego in 1976. Mom-mom became the center of home 
for so much of her family. She provided a home for her own mother who lived 
until the age of 104. She kept the fires burning for John as he traveled back 
and forth to Bakersfield to continue his practice of law. She provided a 
vacation retreat for all of her grandchildren. Four of her grandchildren 
actually made their home with Mom-mom at different times in their lives. For 
Mom-mom there was no questionher family came first.

Helen remained passionate about politics, world affair, the environment, and 
helping those in need, till the end of her life. To her family, she continued 
to be a source of strength, a teacher of life and laughter, and the core of 
unconditional love. It is impossible to express how much she will be missed. 

Helen was preceded in death by her daughter, Patricia May and her husband, 
John Young. Her survivors include daughters, Sally MacGuire and Lucia DeSoto, 
and son-in-law, John DeSoto. She is survived by her six grandchildren and 
their spouses: Tish Beardsley, Alison and Brandon Abbott, Peter and Dara 
DeSoto, Mathew and Karen DeSoto, Kate May and Dwayne Chapman, and Beau May and 
Mary Pyland. She is also survived by ten great grandchildren: Caitlin and 
Joshua Beardsley, Logan Abbot, P.J. Isaac, Hanah and Kaya DeSoto, A.J. DeSoto, 
Kameron Chapman and Ian May. 

In accordance with Helens love of simplicity and the out-of-door there will be 
a small family graveside service in Ramona, California on January 15, 2005. In 
leiu of flowers donations may be sent to the Salvation Army for the Tsunami 
relief efforts. 


Additional Comments:
Volunteer submission - No relation to deceased.
*Posted in the 15 January 2005 edition

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