Marisa Young Obituary

Mrs. Marisa S. Young, age 77, a resident of Colorado Springs, died Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at Memorial Hospital. The funeral will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, December 23, 2005 at the Shrine of Remembrance "America the Beautiful" Chapel of Roses. Entombment will be at the Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum. A reception will follow at Zorbadillo's, 604 South Union Boulevard. She was Catholic. Mrs. Young was born December 18, 1928 in Rome, Italy, to Placido and Vittoria (Pernin) Restuccia, who are deceased. She was married on August 24, 1946 in Rome, Italy to Yancy C. Young who survives. She had a son John Victor Young and a brother Adriano Restuccia, who are both deceased. She is survived by a daughter, Nancy Miller of Colorado Springs; three granddaughters: Stephanie Quintana and Julie Ham of Colorado Springs, and Celeste Young of New Brunswick, Canada; six great-grandchildren: David Barnes, Daniel, Shalena, and Sylvia Quintana, and Dillon M. Ham; a sister, Clara Restuccia of Rome, Italy; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins in Italy, Rhode Island, Florida, and Texas. Mrs. Young had been a resident of Colorado Springs since March of 1963. She was employed at Hewlett Packard in Colorado Springs as a Manufacturing Specifications Manager and as a Projects Supervisor in Research and Development for over 20 years, prior to retirement. She had accompanied her husband during his 31 years of USAF Service, to many places throughout the United States and foreign countries. She had resided in Florida, Georgia, South Dakota, Colorado, Germany, Newfoundland, and Alberta, Canada. She loved to travel and had visited and toured England, France, Spain, Morocco, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, China, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Panama, Ireland, and many Central and South American countries. She was a member of the Hewlett Packard Retirees Club, The Retired Enlisted Auxiliary, and the Air Force Sergeants Association Auxiliary. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, Attn: Web Donation Department, P.O. Box 96280, Washington, DC 20077, www.arthritis.org; American Lung Association, 5600 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, Suite 100, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111; www.lungusa.org, or a charity of choice.