Editing Young, Margaret Colleen Smart (1955-1991)

"Mennonite Brethren Herald" obituary 1991 Mar 8 p. 29

Birth date: 1955

text of obituary: 

<center><h3>MARGARET COLLEEN YOUNG</h3></center>

Margaret Colleen Young and her daughter 
Danielle Leanne of Newton, Man. were killed
in an automobile accident Jan. 22. Margaret
was born Mar. 31,
1955 to Bob and
Asta Smart in Winnipeg. She was
raised in several
Manitoba communities, including Vita
and Grand Marais.
The family moved
to Portage la
Prairie, Man., where she graduated from
Portage Collegiate Institute in 1972. She
married Darryl Young in 1972. They lived in
Winnipeg, where she worked for Manitoba
Hydro. They moved to Regina, Sask. in 1979,
to Portage la Prairie in 1980 and to Newton
in 1983. In 1982 she was baptized and joined
Newton Community Fellowship Church. She
enjoyed children and was active in the church
mid-week program. She served as a volunteer
at Oakville Elementary School and helped
with Portage la Prairie Youth For Christ. She
is remembered as a caring friend and loving
wife, mother, daughter and sister. Danielle
was born June 1, 1982 and was in grade 3 at
Oakville Elementary School. She enjoyed
skating, playing with friends, building snow
forts, bike riding, drawing, helping her mother in the kitchen, Sunday school and the midweek program at church. She had accepted
Jesus. Margaret and Danielle are mourned
by Margaret's husband Darryl; son Ryan;
parents; 1 sister and 1 brother; mother-in-law
Nita Mae and stepfather-in-law Gerry
Saumere of Winnipeg; father-in-law Murray
Young of High Bluff, Man.; and grandmother
Edith Hunter of Portage la Prairie. The
funeral was Jan. 26 in Newton Community
Fellowship Church, with Art Willms and
Terry Leblanc ministering.

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