

She is survived by her daughter Carrie Robison (Ed) and grandsons Tyler (Amanda) of Fort Collins, Colorado and Parker (Emily) and great granddaughter Eliana of Ashland, Wisconsin son Glenn (Audrey), and granddaughter Aliza of Los Angeles, California. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill, of 62 years. She was involved in school activities of her children, the United Methodist Church where she taught Sunday school for many years and the Laramie Plains Museum. Their son Glenn was born in Laramie in 1964. While there, their daughter Carrie Lynne was born in 1959.Īfter two years, the family moved to Laramie where her husband began a 35-year career at the University of Wyoming.

They moved to Carbondale, Illinois, when her husband became the sports information director at Southern Illinois University.

They were married August 28, 1957, in Denver. She met her future husband, Bill Young, an Air Force lieutenant stationed at Oxnard Air Force Base. She was recruited by the Oxnard, California, school system and taught kindergarten and second grade for four years. She graduated from Greeley High School in 1949 and attended the University of Colorado before transferring to Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) where she received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. The family moved to Greeley, Colorado, where her father was superintendent of schools, later becoming the executive director of the Colorado High Schools Activities Association in Denver. She was born to Erma (Alexander) and Glenn T. Sally Joan Wilson Young, 90, peacefully passed away on May 28, 2021, in Laramie, Wyoming.
