Jack Younce
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Friends are invited to lunch after the service at the church.
He lost his long battle with leukemia in his residence in Novato, Calif.
He was born July 17, 1932, in Jenkins, Ky., to Sam Finley and Rausie Harmon Younce. In 1958, he married Shirley Rockhill of Etna Green, who died in 1986. They had two sons.
Later he was reunited with high school sweetheart Tomaline Witham Hudson, and moved to Novato, where he lived for 20 years.
Living in Pound, Va., before moving to Indiana, he was a 1952 Atwood High School graduate, where he excelled in basketball. After graduation he joined the U.S. Navy and served on the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier during the Korean War. He worked at Sun Metal Manufacturing, Warsaw, and later transferred to Bradenton, Fla., to open a new plant. Golf was his passion, and he was a member of the Indian Valley Golf Course.
Surviving are two sons, Blake (and spouse Belinda) and Casey (and spouse Renee) Younce, all of Bradenton; five grandchildren, all of Bradenton; a sister, Annette Younce Rollins, Knoxville, Tenn.; a brother, Sam Younce, Etna Green; a special son-like nephew, John Younce, South Shore, Ky.; very close nieces and nephews; and a long-time companion and significant other, Tommy Hudson, and her sons and families, Brad, Todd and Scott Hudson, all of California. He was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.
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Memorials to the Leukemia Society, 1390 Market St., Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94102 or Hospice By The Bay, 17 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Larkspur, CA 94939.[[In-content Ad]]
Friends are invited to lunch after the service at the church.
He lost his long battle with leukemia in his residence in Novato, Calif.
He was born July 17, 1932, in Jenkins, Ky., to Sam Finley and Rausie Harmon Younce. In 1958, he married Shirley Rockhill of Etna Green, who died in 1986. They had two sons.
Later he was reunited with high school sweetheart Tomaline Witham Hudson, and moved to Novato, where he lived for 20 years.
Living in Pound, Va., before moving to Indiana, he was a 1952 Atwood High School graduate, where he excelled in basketball. After graduation he joined the U.S. Navy and served on the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier during the Korean War. He worked at Sun Metal Manufacturing, Warsaw, and later transferred to Bradenton, Fla., to open a new plant. Golf was his passion, and he was a member of the Indian Valley Golf Course.
Surviving are two sons, Blake (and spouse Belinda) and Casey (and spouse Renee) Younce, all of Bradenton; five grandchildren, all of Bradenton; a sister, Annette Younce Rollins, Knoxville, Tenn.; a brother, Sam Younce, Etna Green; a special son-like nephew, John Younce, South Shore, Ky.; very close nieces and nephews; and a long-time companion and significant other, Tommy Hudson, and her sons and families, Brad, Todd and Scott Hudson, all of California. He was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.
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Memorials to the Leukemia Society, 1390 Market St., Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94102 or Hospice By The Bay, 17 E. Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Larkspur, CA 94939.[[In-content Ad]]
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