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"She was a true pillar in the community."
Pearl Young, 77
"She was a true pillar in the community."
Pearl Young, an Alabama native, spent the final years of her life teaching children as a substitute teacher in the Buffalo School District and was heavily involved in her church community, her sister, Mary Craig, told ABC News. "She loved her students, and they loved her back," according to a statement from her family shortly after her death. Craig described Young as "such a beautiful, sweet woman." Young leaves behind two sons and a daughter.
Young was described in the statement as a missionary who would be "truly missed." "Missionary Pearl Young was a worshipper and loved God. She loved her children, her family, and her Good-Samaritan COGIC church family," the statement read. "She was a true pillar in the community."
In a tribute, President Biden said of Young, "She touched the apple of God's eye." Young's daughter, Pamela Pritchett, told ABC News she has found comfort in remembering how her mother lived as a devoted wife of a church pastor, a loving mother and grandmother. In addition to working as a substitute teacher, Young ran a food pantry for her church. Pritchett said she refuses to allow the May 14, 2022 killings "to be the defining moment of who my mother was."
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