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Alice Klein Young

Alice Young Obituary

YOUNG-Alice Klein, 94, Peacefully on February 15, 2006. Beloved matriarch of the Klein family, she was cherished as daughter, sister, cousin, wife, mother, grandmother, and as the most devoted aunt to three generations of nieces and nephews. She was the widow of Frank O. Young and is survived by her devoted son Robert, daughter-in-law Renee, and grandchildren Brett, and Alyson Clark.

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Published by New York Times on Feb. 17, 2006.

Memories and Condolences
for Alice Young

18 Entries

Robert Young

January 17, 2007

To my dearest family, some things I'd like to say...
but first of all, to let you know, that I arrived okay.
I'm writing this from heaven. Here I dwell with God above.
Here, there's no more tears of sadness; here is just eternal love.

Please do not be unhappy just because I'm out of sight.
Remember that I'm with you every morning, noon and night.
That day I had to leave you when my life on earth was through,
God picked me up and hugged me and He said, "I welcome you."

It's good to have you back again; you were missed while you were gone.
As for your dearest family, they'll be here later on.
I need you here badly; you're part of my plan.
There's so much that we have to do, to help our mortal man."

God gave me a list of things, that he wished for me to do.
And foremost on the list, was to watch and care for you.
And when you lie in bed at night, the day's chores put to flight.
God and I are closest to you....in the middle of the night.

When you think of my life on earth, and all those loving years
because you are only human, they are bound to bring you tears.
But do not be afraid to cry; it does relieve the pain.
Remember there would be no flowers, unless there was some rain.

I wish that I could tell you all that God has planned.
But if I were to tell you, you wouldn't understand.
But one thing is for certain, though my life on earth is o'er.
I'm closer to you now, than I ever was before.

There are many rocky roads ahead of you and many hills to climb;
but together we can do it by taking one day at a time.
It was always my philosophy and I'd like it for you too...
that as you give unto the world, the world will give to you.

If you can help somebody who's in sorrow and pain,
then you can say to God at night......"My day was not in vain."
And now I am contented....that my life has been worthwhile,
knowing as I passed along the way, I made somebody smile.

So if you meet somebody who is sad and feeling low,
just lend a hand to pick him up, as on your way you go.
When you're walking down the street, and you've got me on your mind;
I'm walking in your footsteps only half a step behind.

And when it's time for you to go.... from that body to be free,
remember you're not going.....you're coming here to me.

Ruth Ann Mahaffey (author)
©Copyright 1998-2007

Renee Young

February 28, 2006

What can I say about my wonderful Mother-in-law.......when she first came to live with us in Omaha Nebraska back in 1978, I was a little concerned that it was not the best idea at that time. But as time went by I realized how lucky I was and how lucky my children were to have her living with us for so many reasons. I personally have so very much to thank her for, she allowed me freedoms that most mothers with young children never get, the freedom to go to work and never worry about how my kids were, the freedom to take trips with my husband whenever we wanted to, knowing she was there to watch over them. The freedom to be my own person and have friends and a life outside the home. I owe her so much, and she never asked for anything, she was just there always because my family meant the world to her and she would do anything for us. So how do you thank someone like her, I know in my heart and she does to that I did my best to be like a daughter to her and be her companion for a long time, I know she thanks me too and I will miss her so much. Especially in her last years when her face would light up when we would see her and she would hold our hands or make a certain gesture that was special, that I will truly miss. Be happy Mom as I know you are because now you are where you belong with all those before you that were waiting! I love you!

Alyson Clark

February 22, 2006

What can I say about my Gram? There are not enough words to explain how I feel about her. She was a wonderful, caring, giving and loving woman. She was there with me from day one of my life and I was there for the last day of hers. I have so many memories of her that have shaped my life and made me who I am today. She basically helped raise me and my brother and I will always remember the special things she would do, light a candle everytime I had an exam, she would say "God go with you" on my way out the door and then be there to greet me when I came home. The last few weeks of her life really took a toll on me, I am happy to know she is in a better place now and watching over all of us. I will miss her everyday for the rest of my life and will never forget all the joy she has given to our family.

Rich Klein

February 21, 2006

It's clear from everything written so far, Alice knew how to lift so many of our spirits. I just finished watching a film of my sister's 8th birthday party from about 1966. I was 5 years old. My sister had all her friends around her and I was a bit intimidated by the older and taller crowd. There's no sound on the film. In one clip I'll never forget, Alice put her arms around me and points for me to join the big kids and not to be afraid. In the next scene, I am smiling and dancing with the big kids.

She did these kinds of things with kindness but we also knew Alice didn't sugarcoat things. She told it like it was and I know that my sister and I loved that part of her, too. When we had troubles, Alice would tell us clearly if were wrong. But she did it in such a loving way that you would be quickly motivated to be a better person.

And we are now learning more and more about all the beautiful, often quiet gestures she performed, like that summer day in August 1966 for me, to truly make a major difference in people's lives. If you were family (and she defined that term loosely because all of Bob and Renee's friends adored her, too) you loomed large in Alice's life. Her hands of love even reached family dogs, like our Bernie and the Youngs' Butterscotch and later Chappy. Dogs know a good heart so it was fitting that Bob and Renee brought the latest Young canines to celebrate Alice's birthday in 2005.

In her eyes, we were all her children, so thanks Bob, for sharing Mom with us all those years.

If any of us are ever faced with an ethical dilemna, I have a suggestion: look to the heavens and Go Ask Alice..or ask what Alice would do..and you will almost always find the truth.

Sharon Kaplan

February 21, 2006

Alice was a very special person to me. She knew how to make me feel better when I was going through some really rough times.

When I was at a very low point in my life, she wrote me a beautiful and very uplifting letter that told me how beautiful and special I was and that she loved me and knew things would get better. Her words touched my heart at a time when I needed to hear them.

No one else ever did that for me and I will never forget that. She

will stay in my thoughts forever.

Love to all her family at this most difficult time.

Barbara and Bob Annenberg

February 20, 2006

How fortunate we were to have found Aunt Alice again, in Oregon, after the passage of so many years. How sorry we were to have her leave us. Aunt Alice was loving and loved, caring and much cared for. Our thoughts are with you, Bob, Renee, Brett, Lisa, Alyson and Ryan.

Barbi & Bob Annenberg

Michael Kaplan

February 20, 2006

I was so excited when I first had the opportunity several years ago to fly out West to Albuquerque and visit my uncle Bob, aunt Renee and cousins. This was my first and only opportunity to meet Alice, but the impression she left was something I'll never forget. There was a warmth, pride, and sense of humor about her that reached me in a way few others have--even after spending only a few days together! That she immediately accepted and treated these two "strangers" at her door (my brother and I) as close family speaks to her generosity of heart--something we can all learn from. Much love to the family during this difficult time.

gerri d. klenosky

February 20, 2006

DEAR ELLY

DO YOU REMEMER THE INCIDENT AT AUNT GLADY'S HOUSE AT THE GRAQDUATION OF PAUL FROM CORNELL, AND MY ENGAGEMENT PARTY. YOU KNOW THAT I WAS SICK WITH A STREP THROAT,BUT AUNT CHARLOTE WENT INTO HER BATHROOM, AND CAME OUT WIH A VERY HUMEROUS STATEMENT. IT HAD DO WITH AUND ALICE>

LOVE,GERRI

Eleanor Sachs

February 19, 2006

How well I remember my pretty little Aunt Alice, who was my special friend from childhood. I envied Robert, that she lived with him, but she would come and stay overnight with us, occasionally and she allowed me to parade around in her high heels and big hats, and we usually went out somewhere special

for fun.

When she married dear Uncle Frank, nothing could have been more exciting or romantic!

She travelled with him, until before Bobby was born, and returned to 33 Riverside Dr for his birth. One day Robert and I were proudly pushing his buggy through Riverside Park, with Alice walking behind us. Two women walked by and commented that we looked awfully young to be parents(13 and 14)Alice pulled herself up to her full height and said"who do I look like, the grandmother?"

After the war the three Youngs moved to Buffalo and we did not see them for a few years, and of course long distant calls were few in those days-just photos for us to keep up with Bobby's growth.

My dad had started his own company and offered Frank a job with him, and Henry found them an apartment in the Met's Stuyvesant Town and in l948 they were back in NYC.

We loved watching Bobby grow-up and spending holidays with them all.

Many years later, when they moved to Omaha and Frank was dying, Evan was able to visit him in the hospital and try to offer comfort.

They later visited us in Mpls regularly with Renee and Brett, and we went to the U of M football games and such--my kids loved having cousins only 350 miles away! They all grew to know their Aunt and love her too. Especially her tales about me as a child that they had never heard!

I am so happy that my granddaughters Emily and Laura connected with her in Eugene, at the Reunion in 2003, and have fond memories too.

Thank you Patti for the quote from the Book of Proverbs Alice truly was a virtuous woman whose price is far above rubies.

Think of her early life--it reads like a drama--losing her mother at the age of 5--learning to love her step-mother called Aunt Ethel, whose marriage to Emmanual did not work out, being sent to Cleveland to Aunt Sarah's--always with her big sister Helen at her side. Back to NYC to live with Emmanual and the unmarried brothers, until his death and then to Dorothy and Henry's where she happily spent her time with baby Robert-nuturing him.

The worst blow was losing Helen, her constant companion. Thank God for her visit to the USO canteen during WW11 where she met Frank and fell in love at first sight! Now there was a life story to remember.

Love from us all Elly, Evan and family.

Spaffy Hull

February 18, 2006

I hadn't seen Aunt Alice in many years, but I remember her with fondness as a sweet and loving person - sister of my Uncle Henry.

My condolences to Rich,

Spaffy

GERRI D. KLENOSKY

February 17, 2006

AS RICHARD HAS STATED, HE WOULD PROBABLY NOT HAVE BEEN BORN, IF TANTA WERE NOT AT MY HOME IN STUYVESANT TOWN EVERY DAY FROM MY FOURTH MONTH OF PREGNANCY. SHE WOULD ARRIVE BEFORE BOB LEFT FOR WORK TO TAKE CARE OF PATTI AND ME. SHE WOULD START DINNER AND THEN "LEAVE THE HOUSE IN DYING ORDER"

I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE OF YOU ARE AWARE THAT TANTA NEVER HANDLED A NEW BORN BABY. WHEN BOBBY WAS BORN HE WAS CONSIDERED PREMATURE, SO HE DID NOT GO HOME WITH HER. WHEN HE WAS READY TO COME HOME, A NURSE WAS HIRED.

WHEN PATTI WAS BORN IN AUGUST OF 1958, MY NURSE DID NOT SHOW UP, SO I WAS ON MY OWN. THE FIRST DAY THAT I CAME HOME I HANDED PATTI TO HER AND SHE SAID "WHAT DO I DO NOW?" SHE FOUND OUT VERY QUICKLY.

SHORTLY AFTER BOB DIED, I FELT A NEED TO BE NEAR HER, AND I TOOK OFF FOR NEW MEXICO. I HAD HER ALL TO MYSELF, AND SHE HELPED THROUGH MY INITIAL GRIEF. I DON'T KNOW WHO CRIED MORE DURING THAT TIME.

I KNOW MANY OF US HAVE SHED LOTS OF TEARS THIS WEEK FOR TANTA, BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT SHE IS IN A BETTER PLACE .

BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW THAT BOB AND I STARTED CALLING HER TANTA SHORTLY AFTER OUR ENGAGEMENT.

THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TANTA, AND THERE THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE LIKE HER.

LOVE TO BOBBY, RENEE,BRETT, AND ALYSON.

BUY THE WAY ALYSON, DESPIEE WHAT YOUR DAD HAS SAID, YOUR GRANDMOTHER BELIEVED THAT YOU WERE NAMED AFTER HER. SHE FELT IT WAS AN HONOR FOR HER, AND IT CERTAINLY IS AN HONOR FOR YOU.

Patti Greenberg

February 17, 2006

What can I say about my beloved Aunt Alice, my tante...She was the light of my life along with Uncle Frank and Bobby through all my childhood years. She and Uncle Frank were my weekend parents..except for Lake George vacations, I don't think they ever missed a weekend visit..She taught me how to laugh, love, cry and be a loving human being. She is and will always be the most wonderful memory that I have as a child..She made sure she came when I got married, as soon as Dara was born and immediately when my Dad died..I will love you forever Aunt Alice..Be at peace with Uncle Frank and all those that you loved who went before you...I love you Bobby, Renee, Brett, Aly, Lisa and Ryan and share in your sadness and great love for a remarkable woman.."A woman of valor, who can find her? She is more precious than rubies. Her husband places his trust in her and profits thereby. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks out the wool and flax and cheerfully does the work of her hands. She is like the trading ships, bringing food from afar. She gets up while it is still night to provide food for her household, and a fair share for her staff. She considers a field and purchases it and plants a vineyars with the fruit of her labors. She invests herself with strength and makes her arms powerful. She senses that her trade is profitable; her light does not go out at night. She stretches out her hands to the distaff and her palms to the spindle. She opens her hands to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. She has no fear of the snow for her household, for all her household is dressed in fine clothing. She makes her own bedspreads; her clothing is of fine linen and of luxurious cloth. Her husband is known at the gates, where he sits with the elders of the land. She makes and sells linens;she supplies the merchants with sashes. She is robed in strength and dignity, and she smiles at the future. She opens her mouth with wisdom and a lesson of KINDNESS on her tongue. She looks after the conduct of her household and never tastes the bread of laziness. Her children rise up and make her happy; her husband praises her: "Many women have excelled, but you excell them all!" Grace is elusive and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears G-d- she shall be praised. Give her credit for the fruit of her labors, and let her achievements praise her at the gates.

And that is my wonderful Aunt Alice..

February 17, 2006

Rich Klein

February 17, 2006

Where to begin? She practically raised my own father, Bob Klein, during the 1930's and early 1940's. She and Uncle Frank and cousin Bob were the closest relatives I grew up with. Whether it was making hamburgers for Uncle Frank and I, or buying me the best presents, or consoling my sister, Patti and I during tough times, Aunt Alice was the best caretaker any family could ask for and she rarely asked for anything in return. I have great memories of "Tonta" in Massapequa Park, Stuyvesant Town and Lake George. Her whole life was the epitome of kindness and taught many of us real family values and the value of family. The best qualities my father, Robert Klein, had can largely be attributed to Aunt Alice's complete devotion to him and later to my Mom, Gerri, and my sister, Patti. In fact, when my Mom was pregnant with me and fell ill, it was Aunt Alice who cared for my 2-year-old sister for weeks at a time. From the care she gave to my father, to my mother, to my sister...it's clear I might not even be alive had it not been for her selfless love and devotion. She was a gem whose legacy will certainly be part of the Klein family lore for centuries to come.

Robert Young

February 17, 2006

There was magic in her touch and sunshine in her smile. There was love in everything she did to make my life worthwhile. Her laughter was a source of joy and I could find courage just by looking in her eyes. There was kindness and compassion to be found in her embrace. I will miss her terribly but I know she is in a good place.

Gerri, Charlie, Nathaniel & Jason Rotta

February 17, 2006

Even though we didn't get to know Aunt Alice until the last couple of years, she will leave a lasting impression of family and happiness in our lives. We will miss her. Our love to Bob, Renee, Brett, Allyson and the rest of the family.

Brett Young

February 17, 2006

I can only thank God that Grandma lived long enough to meet my wife, Lisa. Upon meeting her for the first time, her words were, "she has such a soft face." To me, that was the biggest compliment she could have given her. Grandma was very special to me. Growing up, she was part-babysitter, part-friend, part- mentor, and part-mother to me. Most grandmothers kiss you on the cheek when they see you and send you sweaters for your birthday. Gram used to kiss me on the head and would go out of her way to find the perfect gift for me every year, no matter what the cost. We used to watch "Jeopardy!" every day after school and she would light a candle for me every time I had an exam in school. I lost a big part of my childhood on Wednesday evening when Gram passed. I know in my heart she will be watching over me and my family forever.

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