Branch Army
Enlistment September 10, 1943
Discharge January 8, 1946

Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, May 10, 1944
Home on Furlough
Private Gordon Younie, who has been stationed at Camp Fannin, Texas, and is being transferred to Fort Meade, Maryland, spent a couple of days last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Younie. He left Saturday to visit his wife and daughter at Armour, South Dakota. They will accompany him to Fort Meade when he leaves May 20.

Gordon L. Younie, 65, of Manilla, died Friday, Feb. 27, at Veterans Administration Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, March 2, at the United Methodist Church in Manilla, with the Rev. Sushil Joseph officiating. Organist was Barbara Agan and vocalist was Kay Rutherford.

Honorary casket bearers were Donald Blom, Leonard Jones, Larry Birks and Dan Hansen. Burial, under the direction of Ohde Funeral Home of Manning, included graveside rites conducted by American Legion Post No. 132, Manilla, and was in the Nishnabotna Cemetery in Manilla.

Mr. Younie is survived by his mother, Thelma Younie of Manilla; his wife, Madlyn Younie of Manilla; two children, Sandra and her husband, Don Nemitz, of Denison and Randall Younie and his wife, Pam, of Omaha, Nebraska; three grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; a brother, Donald Younie and his wife, Ruth, of Yankton, South Dakota; and the following brothers and sisters-in-law, Audrey and LaVerne Olsen of Manning; Pauline and George Graves of Manning; and Esther and George Alexander of Waterloo.

He was preceded in death by his father.

Mr. Younie was born on May 2, 1921, in Hawarden, a son of Clifford and Thelma (Comstock) Younie. He attended school in Hawarden. The family moved to Manilla, where he graduated from Manilla High School in 1939.

He married Madlyn Cramer on December 9, 1946, and they lived in Manilla most of their married life. He was employed by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad. He retired from the railroad in the 1970s.

He and his wife operated the Unity Cafe in Manilla. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.