{"id":3415,"date":"2022-08-03T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2022-08-03T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:51:13","slug":"james-jim-r-young-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/james-jim-r-young-74\/","title":{"rendered":"James &#8220;Jim&#8221; R. Young, 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">West Newbury &#8211; James \u201cJim\u201d R. Young, age 74, husband of Virginia \u201cGinie\u201d R. (Bedrick) Young, passed away on Friday, July 29th, 2022 at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport after a period of failing health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Born in Boston, he was the son of the late James R. and Margaret (Raymond) Young. He was a graduate of Holy Cross Catholic High School in Boston, class of 1966, and obtained an Associate\u2019s Degree in Electrical Engineering from UMass Lowell in 1991. After a brief employment with General Dynamics, Jim joined the U.S. Navy in 1968 and was honorably discharged in 1972. He went on to work for M\/A-Com and Cobham Electronic Defense Systems in 1972 until he suffered from a stroke in 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Jim loved the outdoors and enjoyed cross country skiing. He would often be found fishing in his green canoe. Jim was a history buff and an avid reader. In 2009 he suffered serious complications from a hemorrhagic stroke but he always persevered with a smile and a bad dad-joke. A devoted husband and father, he will be remembered for his strength and love for his family. He will be missed by all who knew and loved him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">In addition to his loving wife, Ginie, he is survived by his children, Kristen M. Young and Kim R. Young, both of West Newbury; brother Gerald Young and his wife MaryLou of Charlotte, NC; sisters Margaret (Young) Connolly and her husband Frank of Jackson, NH and Judith Young of Bangor, ME, and special cousin Margie Killeen of Topsfield, MA; and several nieces, nephews, great nieces, and great nephews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Funeral services are private. Arrangements by the Kevin B. Comeau Funeral Home, 486 Main Street., Haverhill, MA. Please visit Comeau Funeral Home on Facebook or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comeaufuneral.com\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">www.comeaufuneral.com<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Newbury &#8211; James \u201cJim\u201d R. Young, age 74, husband of Virginia \u201cGinie\u201d R. (Bedrick) Young, passed away on Friday, July 29th, 2022 at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport after a period of failing health. \u00a0 Born in Boston, he was the son of the late James R. and Margaret (Raymond) Young. He was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}