TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for YOUNG, GERTIE Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from June 10 to June 11, 2013 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= YOUNG, GERTIE ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2013/f1306.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== Gertie Mae Young, 67, a native and resident of Thibodaux, died Wednesday, June 5, 2013. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until funeral time Wednesday at Morning Star Baptist Church in Thibodaux. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church, with burial in Morning Star Baptist Church cemetery in Thibodaux. She is survived by her companion, Joseph "Blackie" Boyd; sons, Cornell (Sandra) Young, Troy Young and Donald Harley; daughters, Cynthia Young, Deanna Young, Sandy (Alvin) Young, Monica Young, Jacqueline (Blake) Joseph and Justice Harley; sisters, Barbra (Freddie) Gains and Dorothy Johnson; 22 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Gertie Young and Lillie Mae Johnson Young; son, Cormichael Young; and brother, Edward Johnson. Kennedy Funeral Home in Raceland is in charge of arrangements.