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Young and his wife
Millicent made Los Angeles their home from 1952 until their respective deaths. They had two daughters, Leslie, and Cecily. Late in life, Young developed Alzheimer's disease and in 2007 died from hospital-acquired pneumonia secondary to the disease. He and his wife are buried at
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In 1952, Young and his wife moved to
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles after earning teaching fellowships from the Huntington Hartford Foundation. In 1955 Young was commissioned to create a mosaic mural, which he named "Theme Mural of Los Angeles", for the lobby of the Los Angeles Police Facilities
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Young attended the college preparatory boarding school
Randolph-Macon Academy in West Virginia, and hoped to attend West Point but did not gain admission due to color blindness in one eye. He studied art, literature and journalism at Westminster College in
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In World War II, he served in the Army Air Forces as a writer. After the war ended, Young studied art in New York, as well as at the
Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Washington, D.C., entitled "The Woman Clothed With The Sun." Notable works in Los Angeles include the Holocaust Monument (Pan Pacific Park, Los Angeles), the mosaic bas-relief on the
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Joseph Louis Young was born Nov. 27, 1919, in
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Memorial Park, North Hills, California, where he also designed a mosaic arch of The Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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Young also created a mosaic topographical map of Los
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Thermos, Wendy (January 20, 2005). "Monolith Mural in need of a Face-Lift".
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