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Alaska memorial for Lu Young set

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Anchorage Daily News

Posted: August 7, 2009 - 11:07 am

From Sean Cockerham in Anchorage –

The Alaska memorial service for Congressman Don Young’s wife, Lu, will be Aug. 18.

It’s scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Anchorage Baptist Temple.

The Young’s were married for over 40 years and were very close. She would sometimes put her arms around the congressman when he was talking to the press, and he always made a point in his speeches of talking about how Lu was the “golden nugget” of his life that he found in Fort Yukon.

"This is obviously very hard for him, and he has ups and downs. One moment he can smile and laugh at all the great times they've had together, and the next moment he's grieving over the loss of the love of his life and best friend of almost 50 years," Young's spokeswoman, Meredith Kenny, told me this morning.

She died in her sleep last weekend at the couple’s home in Great Falls, Virginia.