About Deborah Pettway Young
Lived 1916 – 1997 (aged 80–81). Deborah Pettway Young was an American artist and quiltmaker.
Deborah Pettway Young (1916–1997) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.
Life Pronounced "D-bora", Deborah Pettway Young was the daughter of Louvenia and Paul Pettway. Her mother died when Deborah was seven years old, and she was thereafter raised by her father. He remarried twice, but Deborah had trouble adjusting to life with both of her step-mothers.
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American artist
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Deborah Pettway Young was born in 1916.
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Deborah Pettway Young died in 1997.
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Deborah Pettway Young was an artist and quiltmaker.
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Deborah Pettway Young was American.
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