Lorene 'Skip' Young

HANOVER - Lorene “Skip” Young passed away unexpectedly on Monday, May 29, 2023, in Lebanon, N.H. at the age of 101. Lorene Nell Scott was born on February 4th, 1922, to Fred and Lena (Danforth) Scott in a one-room house on Back Lake in Pittsburg, N.H. She spent her early years at the farm of Gilbert and Rachel Scott. Her daily life was filled with the hunting and fishing stories of Fred and his brothers who worked as guides for the sportsmen who stayed at the farm. She graduated from Pittsburg High School in 1939 as Salutatorian. Skip entered the University of New Hampshire that year, but spent her summers working as a waitress at Camp Idlewild on 2nd Connecticut Lake. At UNH, she was a member of Phi Mu Sorority where she made many friends for life. She enjoyed playing tennis, softball, and basketball and especially loved skiing. She graduated in 1943 with a B.A. in Sociology. Skip was accepted at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Social Work in 1943. While at Chicago, she worked for Travelers Aid at Union Station. Her work involved helping passengers find their way across the country, including many soldiers going to war or returning home for a two-week furlough. She received her Master’s degree in Social Work in 1948. She returned to northern New England in 1947 and worked for the Department of Health in Vermont helping with patients affected by polio. At that time, she fell in love with fellow Pittsburg native, Holman Young. They were married in the fall of 1949 on Back Lake. In 1950, they moved to Massachusetts to further their career ambitions. Skip and Holman raised their family in Reading and Northborough, Mass. Skip had a fulfilling career as a social worker. She worked for various organizations including Yale New Haven Hospital, the Vermont Department of Health, and Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. She retired in 1981 as Massachusetts Department of Health Northeast Regional Coordinator and after which she served in her retirement as a Social Work Consultant at the Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook. Her particular interest was always working with handicapped children’s clinics. Skip and Holman always kept a close connection to their hometown of Pittsburg. When they retired, they moved back to Pittsburg and purchased Scott’s Cabins which they ran until 1987. After Holman’s death in 1992, Skip joined college friends living at Kendal at Hanover in 1998, while still enjoying summers in Pittsburg. In her later years, she loved to watch bald eagles that roosted on the pine at the edge of Back Lake. At 80 years old, she took up kayaking. Her primary hobby was writing family history which she did on both the Young and Scott families. At the time of her death, Lorene was the holder of the Boston Post Cane for the Town of Pittsburg. Lorene is survived by her son, Michael Young, and his partner, Tana, of Sarasota, Fla., and her daughter, Jane Taylor, and her husband, Robert, of Morgantown, WV. She is also survived by her grandchildren: Benjamin Young and his wife, Lindsay, of Wrentham, Mass.; Aaron Young of Attleboro, Mass.; Rachel Taylor and her husband, David, of New York, N.Y.; and Rebecca Helmick and her husband, Joey, of Orlando, Fla. She was smart, kind, and generous. We will miss her dearly. There will be a Celebration of Life at Kendal at Hanover N.H. on Friday, August 18, at 2 p.m. All are invited. A reception will be held at her home in Pittsburg on Sunday, August 20, from 2 to 5 p.m. Interment will be private in the Hollow Cemetery in Pittsburg. Expressions of sympathy in memory of Skip may be made to the Farnham Memorial United Methodist Church, c/o C. Smythe, P.O. Box 306, Pittsburg, NH 03592. Condolences may be offered to the family on-line by going to www.jenkinsnewman.com.

Lorene 'Skip' Young

February 4, 1922 - May 29, 2023