Susan Clemmons Yount

Have you heard the phrase about career women, "they can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan?"

That was my friend Susan!

On one hand, Susan was a hard-charging bank executive, but on the other hand she was a cool hipster chick from Midtown Memphis.

Susan is actually from Jackson, Tennessee, but she was all about Memphis. She did everything Memphis!

I describe her as being "Memphis Cool!"

Susan dressed in cool clothes from the local Memphis shops, she went to all the cool places and she and Jerry ate at all the cool restaurants. She even dressed Jerry in cool hipster clothes.

Whenever I would see Susan, she would tell me about the latest musical she just saw at the Orpheum, or the latest play she saw at Playhouse on the Square, or the latest movie at Studio on the Square.

Susan had compassion for the less fortunate including stray animals, the homeless and those stricken with disease.

Susan once found a stray dog on the side of the road. She stopped and picked it up. Once she got home, she realized the dog was pregnant and you guessed it, she kept the dog and the puppies. Those puppies are still alive and being cared for to this day.

Susan was very generous. She gave to most local charities through financial donations or her time. She supported the Memphis Animal Shelter to the Memphis Union Mission to St. Jude, just to name a few.

Once again, keeping it all here in Memphis. Staying Memphis Cool!

Susan loved her husband Jerry, her niece Cassy, her family, animals and lastly her career at Financial Federal. I have no doubt that Susan would still be working if she had not become ill. Someone would have had to drag her out of her office.

My father died at the same age as Susan, I remember thinking at the time that 72 is too young to die, but when you pack in as much life as Susan did, well that would be like living past 100.

Lastly, I feel Susan would tell us to pack in as much life as possible and do it like you are living Memphis

Cool!

Susan was preceded in death by her parents Claude & Catherine Clemmons.

Her memory is lived on by her husband of 43 years Jerry Yount, her niece Cassy (Jason) Culley and their children Knox, Tinley, and Nico; three step-children Michael (Lisa) Yount, Pamela (Odus) Wiley and Tracy (Charles) Stanford; step-grandchildren Philip, Jenna, Tyler, and Nathan; step-great-grandchildren Samantha, Will & Eleanor, Charles Lee & Brooks, and Nico; and her three brothers Tookie, Jimbo and Jonathan.

Family and friends will gather on Monday, August 25 from four o'clock until six o'clock in the evening with funeral services following the next morning, Tuesday, August 26 starting at ten o'clock all at Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens, 3700 N. Germantown Road, Bartlett, Tennessee 38133. Burial will follow in Ridgecrest Cemetery, 200 Ridgecrest Road, Jackson, Tennessee 38305 beginning around one o'clock that Tuesday afternoon.

Any financial gifts in Susan's honor should be sent to the Memphis Animal Shelter or any Memphis organization of your choice. Keep it Memphis Cool!