Dorothy Violet Young's Obituary
Dorothy Violet Young, 93, born in Jamaica passed away peacefully on November 26, 2025, in Miami, Florida.
Visitation services will be held on Friday, December 12, 2025, from 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm at Memorial Plan Westchester Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at 12:00 pm at the Kendall Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Burial services will be held on Monday, December 15, 2025, at 11:00 am at Graceland Memorial Park South Cemetery.
Celebrating Dorothy
Dorothy Violet Young, nee Graham, was born on January 7,1932 in Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica to parents Sophia Orinthia Wilson and Albert Graham. She attended The Titchfield School for her early education then unto the Titchfield Upper School where she excelled and was successful at the Jamaica 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Local Examinations which was the requirement then to progress to higher education.
While attending Upper School, during the weekends and holidays she was employed part time with Monroe Enterprise in Port Antonio, Portland where she was introduced to bookkeeping and honed her skills and developed her competency and passion.
After graduating from The Titchfield Upper School, she started teaching at a Catholic School in Port Antonio, Portland. She then moved on to the Norwich Primary School in Port Antonio, Portland where she was employed as a teaching assistant. As a result of her demonstrable skills, she was recommended to the then Mico Teachers College which she attended. Her remarkable gift of patience and her passion for education resulted in her being assigned to a special education class for boys at Norwich Primary School. As a young teacher with the determination to succeed she rose to the challenge. She developed her unique methodology to stimulate learning for these boys getting them to reach their full potential. Most of her students became very successful and attribute their successes to those formative years of her teaching.
Her love for people and service to others led her to apply to the Jamaica Post and Telegraph Department (now Jamaica Post) where she worked at the Port Antonio, Buff Bay, and South Camp Rd Headquarters.
After marriage, she approached one of her relatives to secure a loan to purchase their first truck and started a Haulage Contracting Company in the mid 1960’s with her former and late husband Edward. She was able to utilize not only the Bookkeeping skills learnt as a young girl to grow the business into a successful Company, but also her experience garnered in the haulage business whilst at Munroe’s which qualified her to make frequent one day trips to Miami to purchase truck parts.
Dorothy later returned to the Postal Service after her divorce from her late husband, serving at the Headquarters in Kingston, Waterford, Guanaboa Vale, and Spanish Town #2 & finally Spanish Town #1 Post Offices for many years until her retirement as a Postmaster in 1991.
In 2003 she migrated to the United States to live with her eldest daughter and continued to enjoy retirement and spending quality time with her daughters, grand and great children. Dorothy loved the Lord and was baptized at the age of 12 years at the Port Antonio Baptist Church, Portland, Jamaica. She was an active Church member where she served in various ministries and was a member of the Phillipo Baptist Church in Spanish Town where she served as chorister, women’s Federation and Hospitality and De La Vega Seventh Day Adventist Church Head Deaconess, Community Services leader and Chorister, later becoming a member of the Kendall Seventh Day Adventist Church in 2004 serving in the Community Services Food Distribution Program.
One of her many Bible verses of which she lived her life was
Romans 12: 21 ‘Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good.’
With a heart full of love and compassion, she sleeps until the day of the Lord’s coming.
Rest well.
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