SERVICES
Graveside service to be held on Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 11 a.m., at Jefferson Memorial Gardens, 1591 Gadsden Hwy, Birmingham, AL 35235.
The service will Live Stream at 11 a.m. at
www.lusainmemorial.com
EULOGY Frances Young, 96, was born on September 30, 1923 to Louisa Banks Houston and Lane Houston in Linden, Alabama (Marengo County). She was the seventh child of nine born to her parents. She is preceded in death by her late husband Herbert Young, Sr. (Navy Veteran WWII), her son Herbert Young, Jr., her daughter Catherine Rutledge, her brothers Lemo Houston (Setsuko Takechi), John Houston, Milton Houston (Carrie), Richard Houston (Wiladean), and her sisters Lustreeta Houston, Baba Houston, Brucee Houston, and Reva Nell Houston.
Frances received her education in her hometown, and later married Herbert Young in Holy Matrimony in 1941, where they had four children. Under military service the family moved to the State of New York, where she accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Savior and dedicated her life in Community Service. She was a faithful member at the Brooklyn Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church. Later she returned to the south, where she continued serving the Lord at the Epehsus Seventh-day Adventist. After living in the Birmingham area she discovered the Hillsview Seventh-day Adventist Church family (currently under the leadership of Pastor James A. Norman), and made it her permanent church in the 1990's, until her time of death.
Frances was known for her gentle smile, kind temperament, the love for people (especially children), and her family, She passed on the morning of September 16, 2020, peacefully at her home with her family by her side. She is survived by her daughters; Ernestine (Tina) Roberts, and Natalie (Nat) Young, both residing in Birmingham, Alabama. She has 9 loving grandchildren; In Alabama – Laertes Rutledge, Harlow Harris, Tony Harris, Parker Harris, In Texas – Kisha Roberts, In New York – Jennifer Rutledge, Tracy Rutledge, and Terrence Rutledge, In Maryland – Nicol Durant (Raymond). She also has 13 Great-Grand Children and 4 Great-Great-Grand Children.
She will be forever loved and missed!! THE BEST MOM IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!!
Professional services entrusted to W.E. Lusain Funeral Home and Crematory of Birmingham, Alabama.