Luretta Young photograph collection, 1960-1979

Luretta Adeline Wagner Young (1899-1988) was born on 26 September 1899, in Woodstock, Illinois. She trained as a teacher at the Northern Illinois Normal School in DeKalb and taught elementary school in Illinois and Utah. In 1926 she married Rawlins Byrns Young, with whom she had two sons and three daughters. In addition to teaching, Young also worked as an inventory control clerk, a ten-key operator, an enumerator for the U.S. Census Bureau, a cashier, and as the head bookkeeper for the Salt Lake County Assessor's office.

Young was active in the Democratic Party and had a lifelong interest in politics. She also served on various committees in such organizations as the Utah Women's Conservation Council, the League of Women Voters, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, the Wasatch Business and Professional Women, the Friends of the Earth, the AFL-CIO, and the Utah Association of Retired Public Employees. After the death of Rawlins Young, Sr., in 1966, Luretta traveled and immersed herself in various causes while continuing to record the activities of the Young family. She died in Salt Lake City on 27 March 1988.