KENWOOD — The life of Dr. Quentin Young, the former physician to President Barack Obama and Rev. Martin Luther King who died in March, will be celebrated at a service on May 22.
Young, 92, was a lifelong Hyde Parker, activist in civil rights and health care and personal physician to many of the city’s top minds from writer Studs Terkel to former Mayor Harold Washington. He died March 7 at his daughter Polly Young’s house in California.
Friends and colleagues can celebrate his memory at May 22 at K.A.M. Isaiah Israel, 1100 E. Hyde Park Blvd. Young was a devoted humanist and a nonreligious program will be held at 3 p.m. followed by a reception at 5 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, Young’s family is asking donations be made in his name to Health and Medicine Policy Research Group or Physicians for a National Health Program.
Parking in the synagogue’s lot will be reserved for those with accessibility problems and parking is also limited on Greenwood Avenue because of the Obamas’ home.
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