Deborah Pettway Young (1916–1997) was an American artist associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters.
He remarried twice, but Deborah had trouble adjusting to life with both of her step-mothers.
Never working from prefabricated patterns, she could see a dress or quilt and replicate it herself without guidance.
Her daughter, Lola Saulsberry, expressed her shock at her mother's international recognition as an artist when she said in an interview, "I never dreamed that people would pay attention to her and Arcola's quilts.
"[3] Her work is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.