In 1927 she gave a presentation titled "A Christian Woman's Responsibility", which addressed the issues of women being silent in the church, and that they should be able and prepared to preach and teach other women in the church.
[1] Irene Young was a schoolteacher in Greenville, Texas, and after her marriage to Perry Mattox in 1904 they moved around Texas and Oklahoma, eventually settling in Bristow, Oklahoma.
She and her husband established four active Churches of Christ congregations, two in Texas and two in Oklahoma, all of which began in their home.
[3] Her son F. W. Mattox was the founding president of Lubbock Christian University, and her daughter Helen Mattox Young was the first lady of Pepperdine University as wife of president M. Norvel Young.
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