Charles Holt Young

CHARLES HOLT YOUNG, 90, of Hot Springs passed away on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017. He was born in Greenwood, Ark., on Nov. 10, 1926 to Horace William and Lucille (Scales) Young. Mr. Young graduated from Kemper Military Academy in 1944 and went on to attend Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas. He was a World War II veteran serving in the 3rd Army, First Calvary Division. Following the war, he remained in Nuremberg, Germany as part of the Army of Occupation assigned to oversee reintegration of displaced persons and prisoners of war. Mr. Young was a Mason and a member of the Belle Point Lodge in Fort Smith, Ark. He served as the Shrine Circus Chairman raising substantial funds in support of the Shriners Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. As a longtime volunteer and Board member of the Fort Smith Boys Club, he enjoyed coaching and supporting the baseball program. His interests included golf, reading, hunting, fishing, skeet and trap shooting, performance breeding of Angus cattle, and thoroughbred horse racing. A keen competitor, he held state, regional and national trap and skeet shooting titles. He was the Arkansas State Trap Shooting Champion for a number of years and inducted into the Arkansas Trapshooting Hall of Fame in 1973. A successful businessman, Mr. Young started numerous businesses throughout his career. Prior to retirement, he was president and owner of R.A. Young and Son Construction Equipment Co. His family always came first in his life. Loving survivors include his daughter, Linda Young of Little Rock; two sons, Charles William Young and wife, Ranie, of Dallas, Texas and James Franklin Young and wife, Mary Ellen, of Chicago, Ill.; grandchildren, Charles and Patrick Murray, Dr. Virginia Young and husband, Brad Geswein, Clayton and Madeline Young. He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Wanda Louise Young and his two sisters, Nancy Young and Billye Smreker. A kind and generous man, Mr. Young will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Arrangements by Little Rock Funeral Home and Edwards Funeral Home of Fort Smith. In lieu of flowers please consider donation to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. www.michaeljfox.org.