A well-known retired Wayne County farmer, William Wallace Young died Thursday at the Flora Hospital following months of gall bladder complications. He was 73.

Mr. Young worked as a farmer in Wayne county all of his life until retiring several years ago. However, even in retirement he still managed to farm a small amount of acreage on Route 1, Fairfield.

About six days before death, he was taken to the Flora Hospital by his family where he remained until his death.

Funeral services were held at Nales Funeral Home at 2 pm Saturday, with burial in Victory Cemetery near Boyleston. The Rev. James Clark officiated.

He married Grace Butler in 1918 in Geff.

He is survived by his wife, Grace; five sons, Leonard and Floyd, both of Fairfield; Beryl, of Cisne; Wilbur, of Fort Smith, Ark.; and Douglas, of Joliet; two daughters, Darlene Buchanan, of Fairfield; and Marjorie Daughterty, of Louisville; 20 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.