Mary Sue Y. Aldrich

Mary Sue Young Aldrich, 83, Luray and formerly of Elkton and Chesapeake, died Thursday, July 3, 2003, at Whispering Pines Nursing Home in Luray where she had been a resident for two and a half years.

Mrs. Aldrich was born July 28, 1919, in Forest City, N.C., and was the daughter of the late E.W. and Anna Hill Young.

She was a manager at Western Union in Rutherfordton, N.C., during World War II and was an accounting technician for the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk for 20 years before retiring. She was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Chesapeake, and Chesapeake General Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and had been active in the Relay for Life in Chesapeake.

In 1944 she married Howard G. Aldrich, who died in 1974.

She is survived by a son, Larry Aldrich of Shenandoah; a brother, Charles S. Young of charlotte, N.C.; two sisters, Emily Y. Roach of Forest City, N.C., and Annette Y. Rice of Norfolk; and two grandchildren.

She will be cremated at the Harrisonburg Cremation Service in Harrisonburg and burial will be private. Arrangements are by the Kyger Funeral Home in Elkton.