Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St. John's Lutheran Church, near Anchor, the Rev Melvin Blobaum, the Rev. Karl Kessler,
the Rev. R.G. Mogel and the Rev. Paul Adix officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Lamb Funeral Home, Gibson City, and after 10 a.m. Friday at the church.
Mr. Youck was born Dec. 1, 1915, at Duval, Saskatchewan, Canada, a son of Gottfried and Amalia Martin Youck. He married Faith Wilma Hinz on Jan 28 1945, at Dubuque, Iowa. She survives.
Also surviving are two sons David Youck of Onarga and Dr. Stephen Youck of Pana; two grandchildren; a brother, Wilfred Youck of Regina Saskatchewan, Canada; and nine sisters, Katherine Erhardt,
Elsie Mossman of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Bertha Erhardt and Esther Robbins, both of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and Hilda Vetter of Lincoln, Neb.
Mr. Youck spent his childhood at Duval Saskatchewan, and graduated from high school there in 1932. He graduated from Luther College at Regina, Saskatchewan in 1940, from Capital University, CoIumbus, Ohio in 1942 and from Wartburg Seminary at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1945. He was ordained a Lutheran minister Jan. 28, 1945 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Dubuque, Iowa.
From 1945 to 1955 he was the pastor at St. Paul's Lutheran Church Hanover, and Trinity Lutheran Church, Elizabeth. From 1955 to 1981 he was the pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church, Anchor. Since his retirement in October 1981 he served as interim pastor for many churches in central Illinois.
Memorials may be made to the three churches he served or to the American Lutheran Church of Gibson City of which he was a member.