Barbara Badgett Younger, 99, of Charlottesville, died on Thursday, November 3, 2011, at Broadmead in Cockeysville, Maryland.
She was born on September 11, 1912, in Bells, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Mr. Edward Younger, professor of history at the University of Virginia.
She attended schools in Bells, Texas, and El Reno, Oklahoma, and was president of her freshman class and vice-president of her sophomore class. After her junior year, she entered Oklahoma City University in 1929, where she was a member of Beta Alpha Phi sorority. She then attended West Texas State Teacher's College in Canyon, Texas, receiving a teaching certificate. As a young woman she was well known for her talent and beauty, and she was crowned Queen of the Red River Valley Fair in Paris, Texas and Queen of the "Court of America Beyond the Horizon" at the Plainview, Texas, Dairy Pageant.
Barbara began her teaching career on West Texas ranch schools, in one-room schoolhouses where the students rode to school on horseback.
In 1936, she married Edward Younger, also a teacher, and 1933 graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College. Mr. Younger then began graduate study at Oklahoma State University and Mrs. Younger worked as office assistant to University president Henry G. Bennett, who was later appointed by President Truman as an Assistant Secretary of State, heading up the Point Four Program that later became USAID. The couple then moved to Washington, D.C., where Mr. Younger completed his Ph.D. in History in 1942.
There Mrs. Younger was a secretary to the Commissioner of the United States Office of Civilian Defense until she "retired" to help her husband with research and type his dissertation. During World War II, Mr. Younger joined the United States Navy and the couple lived in Florida, California, Rhode Island and finally Annapolis, Maryland.
In 1946, Mr. Younger joined the faculty of the University of Virginia. He became chair of the History Department in 1962 and was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1966. From 1955 until 1979, Barbara and Ed lived on the Grounds; from 1955 until 1967 at 4 Dawson's Row, and from 1967 until 1979 in Pavilion X. From 1957 until 1958, they traveled to live in India where Mr. Younger was Fulbright professor of American history at the University of Allahabad. From 1960 until 1961, they lived in Newport, Rhode Island, where Mr. Younger taught maritime history at the Naval War College.
Barbara was his partner in all his endeavors for some forty years, opening her home to gatherings of students, faculty, and visiting scholars. She was active in community and University affairs: American Association of University Women, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Faculty Wives Club, where she was President from 1956 until 1957.
After the death of Mr. Younger in 1979, she helped to supervise the completion and publishing of his final book,"The Governors of Virginia Since 1860". She continued to live in Charlottesville and enjoyed an active life of entertaining and international travel until 2005, when she moved to Maryland to live nearer her family. She especially enjoyed time spent with her grandson.
Surviving are Ellen Stromdahl, daughter, Mark Stromdahl, son-in-law, and Larson Stromdahl, grandson.
A private memorial service will be held at Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, Maryland, on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Interment will be held at the University of Virginia Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Edward and Barbara Younger Award, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. Pay to the order of the College Foundation, P.O. Box 400801, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904.
This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.
She was born on September 11, 1912, in Bells, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Mr. Edward Younger, professor of history at the University of Virginia.
She attended schools in Bells, Texas, and El Reno, Oklahoma, and was president of her freshman class and vice-president of her sophomore class. After her junior year, she entered Oklahoma City University in 1929, where she was a member of Beta Alpha Phi sorority. She then attended West Texas State Teacher's College in Canyon, Texas, receiving a teaching certificate. As a young woman she was well known for her talent and beauty, and she was crowned Queen of the Red River Valley Fair in Paris, Texas and Queen of the "Court of America Beyond the Horizon" at the Plainview, Texas, Dairy Pageant.
Barbara began her teaching career on West Texas ranch schools, in one-room schoolhouses where the students rode to school on horseback.
In 1936, she married Edward Younger, also a teacher, and 1933 graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College. Mr. Younger then began graduate study at Oklahoma State University and Mrs. Younger worked as office assistant to University president Henry G. Bennett, who was later appointed by President Truman as an Assistant Secretary of State, heading up the Point Four Program that later became USAID. The couple then moved to Washington, D.C., where Mr. Younger completed his Ph.D. in History in 1942.
There Mrs. Younger was a secretary to the Commissioner of the United States Office of Civilian Defense until she "retired" to help her husband with research and type his dissertation. During World War II, Mr. Younger joined the United States Navy and the couple lived in Florida, California, Rhode Island and finally Annapolis, Maryland.
In 1946, Mr. Younger joined the faculty of the University of Virginia. He became chair of the History Department in 1962 and was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1966. From 1955 until 1979, Barbara and Ed lived on the Grounds; from 1955 until 1967 at 4 Dawson's Row, and from 1967 until 1979 in Pavilion X. From 1957 until 1958, they traveled to live in India where Mr. Younger was Fulbright professor of American history at the University of Allahabad. From 1960 until 1961, they lived in Newport, Rhode Island, where Mr. Younger taught maritime history at the Naval War College.
Barbara was his partner in all his endeavors for some forty years, opening her home to gatherings of students, faculty, and visiting scholars. She was active in community and University affairs: American Association of University Women, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Faculty Wives Club, where she was President from 1956 until 1957.
After the death of Mr. Younger in 1979, she helped to supervise the completion and publishing of his final book,"The Governors of Virginia Since 1860". She continued to live in Charlottesville and enjoyed an active life of entertaining and international travel until 2005, when she moved to Maryland to live nearer her family. She especially enjoyed time spent with her grandson.
Surviving are Ellen Stromdahl, daughter, Mark Stromdahl, son-in-law, and Larson Stromdahl, grandson.
A private memorial service will be held at Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, Maryland, on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Interment will be held at the University of Virginia Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Edward and Barbara Younger Award, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. Pay to the order of the College Foundation, P.O. Box 400801, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904.
This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.
Barbara Badgett Younger, 99, of Charlottesville, died on Thursday, November 3, 2011, at Broadmead in Cockeysville, Maryland.
She was born on September 11, 1912, in Bells, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Mr. Edward Younger, professor of history at the University of Virginia.
She attended schools in Bells, Texas, and El Reno, Oklahoma, and was president of her freshman class and vice-president of her sophomore class. After her junior year, she entered Oklahoma City University in 1929, where she was a member of Beta Alpha Phi sorority. She then attended West Texas State Teacher's College in Canyon, Texas, receiving a teaching certificate. As a young woman she was well known for her talent and beauty, and she was crowned Queen of the Red River Valley Fair in Paris, Texas and Queen of the "Court of America Beyond the Horizon" at the Plainview, Texas, Dairy Pageant.
Barbara began her teaching career on West Texas ranch schools, in one-room schoolhouses where the students rode to school on horseback.
In 1936, she married Edward Younger, also a teacher, and 1933 graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College. Mr. Younger then began graduate study at Oklahoma State University and Mrs. Younger worked as office assistant to University president Henry G. Bennett, who was later appointed by President Truman as an Assistant Secretary of State, heading up the Point Four Program that later became USAID. The couple then moved to Washington, D.C., where Mr. Younger completed his Ph.D. in History in 1942.
There Mrs. Younger was a secretary to the Commissioner of the United States Office of Civilian Defense until she "retired" to help her husband with research and type his dissertation. During World War II, Mr. Younger joined the United States Navy and the couple lived in Florida, California, Rhode Island and finally Annapolis, Maryland.
In 1946, Mr. Younger joined the faculty of the University of Virginia. He became chair of the History Department in 1962 and was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1966. From 1955 until 1979, Barbara and Ed lived on the Grounds; from 1955 until 1967 at 4 Dawson's Row, and from 1967 until 1979 in Pavilion X. From 1957 until 1958, they traveled to live in India where Mr. Younger was Fulbright professor of American history at the University of Allahabad. From 1960 until 1961, they lived in Newport, Rhode Island, where Mr. Younger taught maritime history at the Naval War College.
Barbara was his partner in all his endeavors for some forty years, opening her home to gatherings of students, faculty, and visiting scholars. She was active in community and University affairs: American Association of University Women, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Faculty Wives Club, where she was President from 1956 until 1957.
After the death of Mr. Younger in 1979, she helped to supervise the completion and publishing of his final book,"The Governors of Virginia Since 1860". She continued to live in Charlottesville and enjoyed an active life of entertaining and international travel until 2005, when she moved to Maryland to live nearer her family. She especially enjoyed time spent with her grandson.
Surviving are Ellen Stromdahl, daughter, Mark Stromdahl, son-in-law, and Larson Stromdahl, grandson.
A private memorial service will be held at Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, Maryland, on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Interment will be held at the University of Virginia Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Edward and Barbara Younger Award, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. Pay to the order of the College Foundation, P.O. Box 400801, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904.
This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.
She was born on September 11, 1912, in Bells, Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Mr. Edward Younger, professor of history at the University of Virginia.
She attended schools in Bells, Texas, and El Reno, Oklahoma, and was president of her freshman class and vice-president of her sophomore class. After her junior year, she entered Oklahoma City University in 1929, where she was a member of Beta Alpha Phi sorority. She then attended West Texas State Teacher's College in Canyon, Texas, receiving a teaching certificate. As a young woman she was well known for her talent and beauty, and she was crowned Queen of the Red River Valley Fair in Paris, Texas and Queen of the "Court of America Beyond the Horizon" at the Plainview, Texas, Dairy Pageant.
Barbara began her teaching career on West Texas ranch schools, in one-room schoolhouses where the students rode to school on horseback.
In 1936, she married Edward Younger, also a teacher, and 1933 graduate of Arkansas State Teachers College. Mr. Younger then began graduate study at Oklahoma State University and Mrs. Younger worked as office assistant to University president Henry G. Bennett, who was later appointed by President Truman as an Assistant Secretary of State, heading up the Point Four Program that later became USAID. The couple then moved to Washington, D.C., where Mr. Younger completed his Ph.D. in History in 1942.
There Mrs. Younger was a secretary to the Commissioner of the United States Office of Civilian Defense until she "retired" to help her husband with research and type his dissertation. During World War II, Mr. Younger joined the United States Navy and the couple lived in Florida, California, Rhode Island and finally Annapolis, Maryland.
In 1946, Mr. Younger joined the faculty of the University of Virginia. He became chair of the History Department in 1962 and was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1966. From 1955 until 1979, Barbara and Ed lived on the Grounds; from 1955 until 1967 at 4 Dawson's Row, and from 1967 until 1979 in Pavilion X. From 1957 until 1958, they traveled to live in India where Mr. Younger was Fulbright professor of American history at the University of Allahabad. From 1960 until 1961, they lived in Newport, Rhode Island, where Mr. Younger taught maritime history at the Naval War College.
Barbara was his partner in all his endeavors for some forty years, opening her home to gatherings of students, faculty, and visiting scholars. She was active in community and University affairs: American Association of University Women, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Faculty Wives Club, where she was President from 1956 until 1957.
After the death of Mr. Younger in 1979, she helped to supervise the completion and publishing of his final book,"The Governors of Virginia Since 1860". She continued to live in Charlottesville and enjoyed an active life of entertaining and international travel until 2005, when she moved to Maryland to live nearer her family. She especially enjoyed time spent with her grandson.
Surviving are Ellen Stromdahl, daughter, Mark Stromdahl, son-in-law, and Larson Stromdahl, grandson.
A private memorial service will be held at Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, Maryland, on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Interment will be held at the University of Virginia Cemetery at a later date.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Edward and Barbara Younger Award, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. Pay to the order of the College Foundation, P.O. Box 400801, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904.
This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.
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