Larry LeRoy Young

Larry Young Service Broadcast

Larry LeRoy Young, born November 12, 1932 of Bountiful, Utah, passed away at the age of 92 in Murray, Utah in hospice care on August 17, 2025. 

Larry was born in Wendell, Idaho to Byron Cline Young and Frieda Rosella Stratton. He was the oldest of seven children. Shirley (Dale) Buttram, Neal, Norma (John) Hepworth, Wilma (Devon) Scovill, Roger (Sue) Workman, and Helen (Randall) Rector. He grew up in Jerome, Idaho on a small acreage. 

Larry started working at the age of 8 in local farmers fields with his grandmother, mother, aunts, sister, and cousin. At 14, he started working in a blacksmith shop but they also did repairs on one of his favorite things--cars. He learned not only how to weld, repair, and build a car from the ground up, but he could shoe a horse and fix or build just about anything. He also earned his pilot's license at 13, as airplanes were his next love after cars. 

He worked as an airplane pilot, a movie projectionist, a welder, machinist, plumber, lumberjack, race car builder, carpenter, and built miles of fence across the Idaho desert. His last job before being drafted into the Army, was to work at the Atomic Energy Commission plant as a chemical operator in Arco, Idaho. This is where he would meet the woman who would become his wife of 65 years, and the love of his life, Iris Kay Pratt, who was a secretary there. They had barely met before he was drafted and sent to Germany and the western European countries in Special Troops as an armorer, wheeled and track vehicle mechanic and wrecker driver on the Autobahn. 

While Larry had grown up in the LDS faith, he had left it behind only to regain it back again while in the service. He received his endowments in the Bern Switzerland Temple. He and Iris would write to each other over those two years becoming close. Two months after ge was discharged from the Army, he and Iris decided to get married. They married in the Logan Utah Temple on July 1, 1960. 

They moved from Moreland, Idaho down to Salt Lake City, Utah where Larry was a welder. His doctor told him he needed to quit because of his lungs, so he went into barbering and opened up Larry's Barbershop in Bountiful, Utah, which he did for the next 32 years. Bountiful was where they made their home. 

Larry and Iris had six children, Holly (Gary) Bahr, Heidi (David) Vernon, Sheri, Becky (Ray) Mitchell, Christopher (Christy Tobler), and David. Then came along with his grandchildren; Kyle Bahr, Katelyn Bahr, Meagan Vernon (Zac Perez), Cameron Vernon, Jarom Vernon, Amber Vernon, Dana Mitchell, Byron Mitchell, Elliot Mitchell, Emma Young, Samuel Young, Matthew Young, Sadie Young, Spencer Young, and Lincoln Young. They also have two children from his first marriage, JoLinda (William) Gregg, and Lila (Roger) Rue, and his grandchildren from them, Stephanie Young, William Longacre, Steven Owens, and Kealy Styhl (Jennifer Ingraham). 

Larry's family and his faith in his religion were the two most important things in his life. He taught his children to be hard workers, to be honest, to be kind, and to love others as they were all God's children. He told them bedtime stories, let them "curl" his hair, took them camping and game them all unconditional love. He worked hard to give them a good life. He was kind and giving and if he could help you out--he would. If you wanted to know something about anything, he probably knew it because he had done it. 

One of his favorite church callings was going on a mission to the Salt Lake Temple Square with his wife. They spent three and a half years as housing coordinators for the sister missionaries that served in the Square. 

The Young family would like to thank the Bountiful 20th Ward for their love, compassion, and friendship in watching over Larry, Iris, and their family as they grew up and older. They would like to thank the care team that watched over him so kindly the last week of his life. And for those who helped him have more years than expected with his family, we appreciate every extra day we had with him. 

His funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 30, 2025 with a viewing from 9:00am-10:45am and a funeral service at 11:00am. 

Services will be held at the Bountiful 20th Ward Building: 102 East 1400 South, Bountiful, Utah. 

Larry will be interred at the Bountiful City Cemetery immediately following the funeral services: 200 West 2224 South, Bountiful, Utah.