Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Younts, Charles R., 1985 

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CHARLES ROLPHI YOUNTS

C.R. YOUNTS DIES AT 90

Charles R. Younts, a retired board chairman of Plantation Pipeline Co. and a 
philanthropist, died Thursday in Atlanta.  He was 90.

Mr. Younts owned a house in Franklin and contributed to the building of a new 
home for Franklin's American Legion which bears his name.

He was predeceased by Mrs. Willie Camp Younts.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Poplar Spring 
Cemetery in Franklin.

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OIL MAN-PHILANTHROPIST C.R. YOUNTS' RITE SLATED

A graveside service for Charles R. Younts, retired chairman of the board of 
Plantation Pipeline Co. and a philanthropist, will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. 
in Poplar Spring Cemetery in Franklin, Va.

Mr. Younts, 90, died Thursday at his home here.

A native of Pineville, N.C., Mr. Younts began his career in Charlotte at the 
age of 17 with Standard Oil Co.

From then until 1941, he held various positions with Standard Oil and its 
affiliates in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York and New Jersey.

In 1941, he was named president of the new Plantation Pipeline Co., based 
here.  He retired from the company in 1960 as chairman of the board.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War I.

His activities included serving as was treasurer and chairman of the Southern 
area YMCA; director and acting president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Blue 
Ridge, N.C., a YMCA affiliate; president and director of Churches Homes for 
Business Girls Inc.; member of the board of trustees of Erskine College in 
South Carolina; and moderator and chairman of the finance committee of the 
Foreign Mission Board; and treasurer of the ministers' retirement plan of the 
General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

He also was a member of the board of trustees and president of the Atlanta 
Metropolitan YMCA; director and chairman of the Atlanta Chapter of the 
American Red Cross; director and chairman of the Southern Industrial Relations 
Conference; and a member of the Atlanta committee of the National Probation 
and Parole Association.

Mr. Younts was a member and elder of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian 
Church of Doraville, Ga.

He also was a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta, the Capital City Club, the 
Piedmont Driving Club, the University Yacht Club, the Atlanta Chamber of 
Commerce, the Newcomen Society of England, Sons of the American Revolution and 
Valley of Atlanta Consistory Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free Masons.

In 1962, he received an honorary doctorate from Erskine College "for his 
outstanding work in the area of human relations, for his excellent and 
untiring effort in behalf of Erskine College and for his outstanding success 
as a Christian layman in the business world."

Mr. Younts maintained a house in Franklin and contributed to the building of 
the new home of the American Legion Post there, which bears his name.

He was the widower of Mrs. Willie Camp Younts.

There are no immediate survivors.

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CHARLES R. YOUNTS, PHILANTHROPIST AND PETROLEUM EXECUTIVE

   ATLANTA - Charles R. Younts, a retired petroleum executive and 
philanthropist and the husband of the late Willie Camp Younts, died in 
Atlanta on Thursday at the age of 90.

   Mrs. Younts, a native of Franklin, Va., and the daughter of the late 
Douglas and Ella Camp had died in June at the age of 92.

   A Pineville, N.C., native, Mr. Younts had begun his career in Charlotte 
with Standard Oil of New Jersey.  In 1943 he became president of the then 
newly organized Plantation Pipeline Co., and continued at it's head until 
he retired in 1960 as chairman of the board.

   Throughout his business career he had been active in social-welfare, 
civic, and educational organizations, and following his retirement he 
devoted full time to such work.

   He had been chairman and treasurer of the Southern Area, Young Men's 
Christian Association and director and acting president of the YMCA athletic, 
the Blue Ridge (N.C.) Assembly.  He also was president and director of 
Churches Homes for Business Girls Inc. and a member of the board of Erskine 
College.  He was moderator and treasurer of the Ministers' Retirement Plan of 
the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and an elder 
of the denomination's church in Doraville, Ga.  He also had been a member of 
the board and president of the Atlanta Metropolitan YMCA, director and 
chairman of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Red Cross, and director and 
chairman of the Southern Industrial Relations Conference.  He was a member of 
the Atlanta Committee of the National Probation and Parole Association.  In 
1963, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Erskine College.

   He attended secondary school in Charlotte.  After joining Standard Oil he 
held positions of increasing importance with the company and its affiliates 
in the Carolinas, New York and elsewhere before being elected in 1941 to the 
presidency of the Plantation Pipeline Co., whose headquarters were in Atlanta.

   During World War I, he served as a first sergeant with the 38th Division, 
Army Artillery Corps.  He was a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta, the 
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, and Stanley Masonic Lodge 348.

   Mr. Younts had donated the land and the construction funds for the Franklin 
American Legion building, which bears his name.

   Survivors include nieces and nephews.

   The graveside funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery, Franklin, Va., by Dr. Michael Clingenpeel and the Rev. Joseph Slane. 
Wright Funeral Home, Franklin, is handling arrangements.


Charles Rolphi YOUNTS, retired oil executive and philanthropist, 
Army veteran of WW-I, 
Pineville, NC native, d. 28 Nov 1985, at home, Atlanta, GA, age 90, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 114*), Franklin, 
   3 Dec 1985, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Dec. 1-2, 1985; 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Dec. 1, 1985 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Obit of wife Willie A. (CAMP) YOUNTS (1892-1985) posted at:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/y532w1ob.txt 


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