Sgt. Marvin (Rex) Young  Obit

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 Submitted by  Janice Langley

This is the closest thing I have come across for an obit for Marvin Rex.  You might can use some of it. 
 
Article from local newspaper:
 
Medal of Honor Award Is Slated
The highest tribute paid to any American, the Congressional Medal of Honor, will be presented next month to the mother of an Odessa boy, killed in action in Vietnam.
Sgt. Marvin (Rex) Young, a Permian high school graduate, was reported missing in action Aug. 21, 1968.
No details of his death were revealed at the time, except that he was killed by small arms fire while engaging the enemy in action in the Saigon area. 
Young is believed to be the first Odessan to ever receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. 
"I was informed I would learn what happened to Rex when the citation is red," said Mrs. Marylyn Young, his mother, a former Odessa resident.
She said that she was notified of the award by letter from Washington.  The letter set a tentative date of April 7 for the presentation by President Nixon. 
Mrs. Young, who now lives in Dallas, said she would be attending the ceremony with her former husband, Roy Young, who is in Anchorage, Alaska.
She said that she also asked the government to allow Rex's brother and sister to  attend the ceremony, but had not received a reply yet. 
His sister, Mrs. Perry Max Davis lives at 1501 East 57th, and his brother, Charles Young, lives in Richardson. 
Young, had been stationed in Vietnam for 10 months at the time of his death. 
He had been wounded twice before - first on Dec. 7, 1967 and then on Feb 1.
"He just had two more months to go in Vietnam," said his sister. 
An athlete at Permian, he was described as a "good student with an active interest in baseball and football." 
His mother said he had lived in Odessa for most of his life, except for a couple of years of grade school in Hobbs, N.M. 
He graduated from Permian in 1965 and was a student at Odessa College for one year and then transferred to a college in Kentfield, Calif. 
His sister said he was interested in art, and had spent quite a bit of time painting.  "There were lots of things, its hard to put a finger on any certain one," she said. 
He joined the U.S. Army Infantry from Odessa, Sept. 15, 1966, and took his basic training in El Paso, at Fort Bliss. 
His mother said the 21-year-old soldier had made plans to attend Texas Tech at Lubbock following his discharge from the Army. 
The Congressional Medal of Honor will be presented to her posthumously by the President of the United States, who will make similar awards to  other Americans, or their relatives.