Eunice Young

Eunice was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Paul and Jeanette Boea in August of 1933. She was a 1951 graduate of Pascagoula High. After graduating high school, she set her sights on becoming a nurse and worked to save money for nursing school. Those plans were put on hold when she met and married Airman James E. Young, on February 7, 1953, in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She spent the next thirty years as a military wife, raising a military family moving to a variety of duty stations around the world. In 1984 Eunice finally accomplished her dream of becoming a nurse. She worked full time as an LPN in a local retirement facility, and later worked part time as a hospice nurse. Eunice, lovingly known as “Mama Young”, served her community by giving care and assistance to the elderly, donating resources to local, national, and international charities, and teaching Sunday school lessons in her church. She was a continual source of light, love, wisdom, encouragement, and inspiration to her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and those whom God brought across her path. She was truly a gift of love to any life she touched.

Eunice is reunited in heaven with her husband CMSAF James E. Young, her parents Paul and Jeanette Boea, and all her siblings: Shirley, Paul, Jean, and Lily.

Eunice is survived by her children: Nena Gray, Patricia A. Young Summers, James E. Young Jr., Deidre M. Bentley and Kenneth R. Bentley, Brian C. Young, and Dr. Sheila J. Harris, DMA; her 13 grandchildren, and her 13 great-grandchildren.

The family of Eunice wishes to extend our sincere thanks to the Hospice nurses and chaplain.

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue…a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

Proverbs 31: 25-26; 30b-31