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Young was born Feb. 2, 1926, in High Point, N.C to Burnie Clay Gannaway and Gladys Lee (Spencer) Gannaway. Her formative years were spent in High Point, where she attended elementary school and William Penn High School.
Upon graduating from high school in 1943, she relocated to Leonia with her mother and sisters Serlener Mae (Gannaway) Trival and Duval Gannaway. She then returned to North Carolina to attend Winston Salem Teachers College, where she graduated with a B.S in 1947. She then attended graduate school at AT&T College in Greensboro, N.C., in 1953.
In 1948, she married David Young in Cleveland and gave birth to her first child Ronald Young in 1949. They then moved back to High Point, where they had their second child, Reginald David in 1952. In 1953, Margaret, David and their growing family moved back to Leonia, where they became members of Galilee down by the brook, where the Rev. Walter Taylor was the pastor.
They eventually laid roots in Englewood, and in 1958, Margaret gave birth to her third and final child, June Linelle.
Young was a teacher in the Englewood, Teaneck, and Paterson public school systems. In 1995, after 33 years, she retired from the Paterson public school system.
She was predeceased by her sons, Reginald and Ronald Young, and Lenny Rhodes; and her sisters Serlener Trival and Duval Gannaway.
She is survived by her daughter June L. Young of Wood-Ridge; daughters-in-law Sandra Tutt-Young and Mabel Judson, both of Paterson; her grandsons, Travis Young of Englewood, Rashann Harris of South Carolina and Levon Myles (Sandra) of Paterson; granddaughters, Andrea Smikle (Tishawn) and Lauren Young, both of Paterson; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
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