Nancy Ellen (Landers) Young

Nancy Ellen Landers Young, 76, of Foxburg, passed away peacefully Thursday morning, October 30, 2025 at Quality Life Services in Grove City following a long and challenging battle with Alzheimer’s disease. 

Nancy was born in Emlenton on February 15, 1949.  She was the daughter of the late Samuel G.  and Josephine McCartney Landers and was the youngest of 9 children. She graduated from Allegheny-Clarion High School in 1967.  She was a lifelong member of the Memorial Church of Our Father in Foxburg.

Mrs. Young worked as a beautician and local wedding photographer. She enjoyed swimming, nature photography, painting, and planting and tending to her flower gardens.

She is survived by her loving husband, Robert E. Young, of Harrisville, whom she married at the Memorial Church of Our Father in Foxburg on May 21, 1977.  Also surviving is a son, Timothy Young and his wife, Katie, of Grove City, a sister, Janice E. Landers of Franklin, along with many nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, and was looking forward to the birth of her twin grandchildren.   

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her siblings, Samuel D. Landers, Bennie G. Landers, Joseph E. Landers, Fredrick C. Landers, Sylvan J. Landers, Joy A. Landers, and Josephine Landers Brown.

Friends will be received at the Hile Funeral Home, Inc., 802 Grove St., St. Petersburg from 10am to 11am on Wednesday.  A funeral service will follow from the funeral home at 11am with the Rev. Geoffrey Wild, pastor of the Memorial Church of our Father, officiating.  Interment will be in Perryville Cemetery.  To send a condolence, please visit www.hilefh.com.    

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