Elmyria Young Jarnigan

Elmyria Young was born June 29, 1935 in Texarkana, Texas to her late parents Edward and Rosie Anna Young. She was the oldest child in a family of five children, two boys and three girls.
Elmyria Young attended John C. Fremont High School where she graduated with honors in June 1954. She received her Bachelor's of Arts from Los Angeles State College in 1958 with a major in Elementary Education. She then went on to receive her Master's of Science in Elementary Education from USC in 1961. She was employed as an elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and San Bernardino Unified School District for a total of 30 years before retiring. Elmyria worked as a Reading Specialist under Title 1 and under Miller Unruh for the last 10 years of employment.
Realizing that this world is not our home and that our souls must spend eternity somewhere, she chose to spend it with the Lord and at age 12, she accepted Christ as her personal savior and united with the Baptist Church in Bakersfield, CA. At the age of 14 she united with El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Elmyria served as church secretary, secretary of the usher board, Sunday school teacher, member of the youth choir, president and announcement clerk while attending El Bethel Church until the age of 26. Elmyria served on the usher board after uniting with Magnolia Presbyterian Church in Riverside California in early 2004.
On January 16, 1972 Elmyria Young married Henry Melvin Jarnigan, who passed on July 23, 2006. They were married for 34 and a half years.
Elmyria was also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.. She was secretary of the Pyramid Club of June 1957 in Los Angeles, where she served on various committees becoming a Delta.
Elmyria's pastimes were reading, traveling, writing poetry, and painting. She leaves to cherish her beautiful memories sister Rudea D. Ringer. Nephews Mario Joseph Charles,
De Andre Young, Derrick Young, Bryan Lincoln, Christopher Young and Jonathan Young. Nieces La Tanya Williams, Selena Wright, La Wanda Young, Carolyn Young, and DeAdera Young. She also leaves a host of great nieces and nephews, great great nieces and nephews, great great great nieces and nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.
"Don't look upon my death as an end, but a new beginning, for I'm going home! I truly found the Lord, Jehovah, my God. I am one of the chosen few. Thank you God".
-Elmyria Young Jarnigan
Psalm 91
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
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