Roy O. Young
March 22, 1926 - May 19, 2015

Roy Young was born in Brookside (Wild Bight, now Beachside) on March 22, 1926, the second eldest child of Daniel and Winnie Young.
Roy loved to hunt and fish and along with his four younger brothers spent much of his early life on the ocean, on the brooks or in the woods. He helped his father with his dog team and helped his mother look out to the dogs and gardens when Dan was away on his trap lines. At the age of 16, he got his first job as a laborer during the construction of the Second World War base at Botwood.
After the war ended, he returned home and tried his hand at fishing, working in the woods and working as a guide with mineral prospectors. In 1948 he met the new schoolteacher for Wild Bight / Southern Arm, Malviny Taylor of Springdale. Malviny taught for two years in Wild Bight and they became good friends. Roy continued working with the prospectors and Malviny took teaching positions in many parts of the island. They only saw each other during the summer and Christmas. Roy begin working at Tilt Cove in 1952 with a company preparing to reopen the copper mine. Roy learned mine surveying on the job from a Danish surveyor, Asger Palmvang, and made a career out of mine and construction surveying. Roy left Tilt Cove in1959, got married to Malviny and began working on the setup of the Little Bay mine. Craig was born in 1960 and in 1963 they moved to Little Bay. Roy worked at Little Bay until the mine closed in 1969 and in 1970 they moved back to Wild Bight (now known as Beachside).
Roy worked at several seasonal jobs and in between he built a house at Beachside. In 1973, he was offered a job as a construction surveyor with Hewlett Services. It was seasonal work and Roy enjoyed the winters on his snowmobile in Southern Arm. Roy retired in 1989, bought a quad and fiberglass boat, and started construction of his cabin at Southern Arm. He and Malviny spent a lot of their time at this cabin, especially in the winter.
Craig married Diane in 1987 and they had two daughters, Alexandra and Allison, who Roy adored. Roy was able to have pictures done when Alexandra & Kent got married in June 2014.
Malviny was diagnosed with terminal cancer in January of 2010 and she passed away in September of that year. Roy was diagnosed with dementia in 2010 as well. In February, 2011 he went to live at the Dr. Hugh Twomey Health Care Centre at Botwood until March, 2015 when he moved to the Carmelite House in Grand Falls-Windsor until his passing.
He was predeceased by his wife, Malviny; parents, Daniel and Winnie; and brother, Ross. Roy leaves to mourn son, Craig (Diane); grandchildren, Alexandra (Kent) and Allison; siblings, Marjorie, Ward (Edna), Frank (Sue), and Ford.