Born: 21 Oct 1913 at East Lahave, NS, the first of two children.
Died: 23 Aug 1996, age 82, at the Drew Nursing Home in Sackville, NB
Father: Leo Parks CORKUM #6 (25 Jun 1889 - 18 Mar 1971)
Mother: Mary Blanche DEAL #7 (5 Nov 1891 - 11 Oct 1952)
Married: 5 Nov 1936, age, 23 to Merrill Harvey Forbes YOUNG #2 at Central United Church, Lunenburg, NS, Rev. Stanley BLAND officiating.
Children:
1. James Christopher Frederick YOUNG, #1
2. Gretchen Mary Ann YOUNG
| Irene and Merrill Young on their wedding day, November 5, 1936. | Same folks 40 years later. |
Irene's andMerrill's ashes were distibuted in the waters of Prince's Inlet between the Lunenburg Yacht club and Young's Landing at Martin's Brook. Their coming and going dates are inscribed on the back side of her in-laws' head stone in Lunenburg Hillside Cemetery. If you turn 90 degees to the left you would be looking at the Lunenburg Academy.