Dodge City- Doris Jean Young, 85, passed away July 27, 2017 at the Presbyterian Manor of the Plains in Dodge City.   She was born April  27, 1932 in Kansas City, Missouri to Eva Ellen Davis.  She attended Kansas City schools and began work in 1948 as a secretary in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.  The bank is where she met Dean R. Young who was a bank examiner serving seven states.  They were married June 1, 1953 in Kansas City, Missouri and later that year moved to Dodge City where Dean was a fourth generation native.

Always active and providing leadership, she served as Financial Secretary and Pledge Chairman for many years in the Presbyterian Womens Organization;  leader of a Senior Girl Scout Troop, past president of Central School PTA, former President of Chapter DZ PEO Sisterhood, former President of Philomath Study Club.  Her memberships include over 60 years in First Presbyterian Church as well as PEO;  Bas Bleu Study Club,  Women's Chamber of Commerce.  She also volunteered in her daughter's Brownie and Junior Girl Scout Troops.  She was an avid bridge player and traveled with her husband to five continents as well as throughout the United States and Mexico.

Doris was preceded in death by her mother and step-father Luther Ralph Durham, husband of sixty three years Dean, Grandson Timothy Robert Harper.

She leaves daughter Diane Margaret Summers and husband Leonard of Warsaw, Missouri;  three grandchildren Nicole Smith and husband Cote of Lawrence, Kansas;  Michelle Durham and husband Scott of Eudora, Kansas;  Tyler Summers of Warsaw, Missouri;  a great Granddaughter Lauren Preston of Eudora, Kansas; a great Grandson Archer Smith of Lawrence, Kansas.

Funeral service will be held at the First Presbyterian Church on Friday August 4, 2017 at 10:00 with Rev. Dick Robbins presiding.  Burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery in Dodge City.  Visitation will be at Swaim Funeral Home on Thursday August 3, 2017 from 12:00 to 8:00 PM, with the family receiving friends from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.  Memorials are suggested to First Presbyterian Church in care of the funeral home.