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Joan E. Youngdale \u2013 91 \u2013 of 66 Platt St., Hornell, passed away peacefully at her home, following a lengthy illness.<\/p>\nJoan E. Youngdale \u2013 91 \u2013 of 66 Platt St., Hornell, passed away peacefully at her home, following a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n
Born in Utica, NY on September 24, 1928, she was the daughter of William & Dorothy (Colmus) Carroll.<\/p>\n
Joan grew up in Utica where she attended Blessed Sacrament Catholic School and was a graduate of Utica Free Academy High School with High Honors in 1943.\u00a0\u00a0 Following High School graduation, she was employed for several years at a New York State Dairy Lab, testing milk and milk products from farms and milk processing companies.\u00a0\u00a0 She held a NYS certification and license as a Dairy Lab Technician.<\/p>\n
For over 10 years, Joan worked as an insurance code inspector for Utica Mutual Insurance Company.\u00a0 After getting married she accepted a position from 1972 to 1979 as a reading aide for special needs students attending the Utica School System.\u00a0 After moving to Hornell in the summer of 1979, she began working for the\u00a0 Hornell City School System as a library clerk at Columbian School and then for Hornell High School retiring in 2001 having provided 22 years of service.\u00a0 Joan enjoyed talking with children that she had directly worked with as kindergarteners now seeing them as high school students.<\/p>\n
Joan was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and a communicant of St. Ann\u2019s Church.\u00a0 While living in Utica, she was a member of Gamma Chi Sorority of Utica, an organization which gave nursing scholarships and other opportunities to well deserving, underprivileged young ladies in the 1950’s.<\/p>\n
Joan enjoyed many outdoor activities throughout the years.\u00a0 She especially enjoyed camping.\u00a0 Whether in a tent or a tent camper she didn’t care.\u00a0 She loved the Adirondacks and New York State Parks camping in most but finally settling on Sacandaga Lake at Moffitt’s Beach as her favorite camping spot.\u00a0 In her earlier years you would find Joan on a Saturday night at one of the many square or round dances in the Utica area.\u00a0 She also loved being at hockey games where you could \u201cyell as loud as you wanted to and no one around you cared\u201d.\u00a0 She regularly visited dude ranches in the Adirondacks horseback riding, hiking and swimming.\u00a0 She traveled the United States extensively in her youth, traveling with the Young Women\u2019s Christian Association.\u00a0 Several favorite trips were Yosemite, Grand Canyon, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., and New York City.\u00a0 Joan was an avid reader who preferred non-fiction historical books.\u00a0\u00a0 She enjoyed gardening, picnicking and held a special fondness for really good food.<\/p>\n
Joan was married to her one and only love, Charles \u201cCharlie\u201d Youngdale on January 23, 1960 at Our Lady of Lourdes in Utica, N.Y.\u00a0 Charlie died March 9, 2005.\u00a0 She was also preceded in death by her sister Norma Clarke, her brother William \u201cBill\u201d Carroll, Jr.<\/p>\n
Surviving are 2 daughters, Joanne (Glenn) Schrager of Oakland Park, FL and Carroll Clark of Hornell; her son-in-law, Gary Clark of West Almond; 1 sister, Nancy Burns of Utica, NY; several nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n
The family of Joan E. Youngdale will receive friends on Wednesday from 4:00 PM \u2013 6:00 PM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.\u00a0 <\/strong>A Memorial Service will be celebrated at the conclusion of calling hours at 6:00 p.m. Deacon Robert McCormick officiating.\u00a0 Final interment in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canisteo, NY.<\/p>\n Joan\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her name be made to St. Jude Children\u2019s Hospital, PO Box 1000 \u2013 Dept. 300, Memphis, TN\u00a0\u00a0 38148.\u00a0 Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joan E. Youngdale \u2013 91 \u2013 of 66 Platt St., Hornell, passed away peacefully at her home, following a lengthy illness. Born in Utica, NY on September 24, 1928, she was the daughter of William & Dorothy (Colmus) Carroll. Joan grew up in Utica where she attended Blessed Sacrament Catholic School and was a graduate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4052,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4050\/revisions\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}