Willie "Pearl" Young, 95, of Tylertown formerly of McComb died on November 10, 2022, at the Billdora Senior Care Center in Tylertown, MS.

Visitation will be held on Monday November 14, 2022 from 10 AM until graveside services at 11:00 AM at the Bogue Chitto Carters Creek Baptist Church cemetery. Rev. Mike Alexander will officiate and Hartman-Jones Funeral Home of McComb will be in charge of arrangements.

Pearl was born in McComb, MS on October 31, 1927 to the late Willie Earl and Erma Leona Daniels Boyd.

Pearl was a homemaker and a member of the Bogue Chitto Carters Creek Baptist Church. She was a wonderful and loving wife, mother and grandmother. She enjoyed her greenhouses , flower beds and her paint by numbers. She was athletic and alway liked to be busy. Her husband who served in the Air Force would come home from his deployments and she would have changed the house by removing or adding a wall or some other part of the house. She will be sadly missed by those who knew and loved her.

Pearl was preceded in death by her parents, a loving husband Paul Jones Young, one brother Harry Lane Boyd, one sister Loretta Leuthauser and a granddaughter Candace Thomas.

She is survived by her son Rickey Paul Young (Millie), one daughter Judy Killingsworth, two grandchildren Jeffery Killingsworth and Tommy Joe Killingsworth Jr., with numerous nieces and nephews.

Honorary pallbearers will be Keith Howell and Eddie Leuthauser.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Scholarship Fund of Candace Thomas Memorial Fund at South West Community College. Attn: SMCC Foundation 156 College Dr. Summit, MS 39666

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