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Birth:          14 Oct 1917 Ill.
Death:          8 Apr 2009 Lafayette, Contra Costa Co., Cal.

Notes
1920 in Los Angeles, Cal. age 2y 3m
Class of 1939 Cal Tech calteches.library.caltech.edu/323/01/classes.pdf
prob the Homer S Youngs who wrote Study of One Atmosphere Manned Underwater 
Structures for North American Rockwell Corp in Anaheim Cal.
also prob author of Translations by Baba, 1975
ssn no num
St. John tree on ancestry
from https://chrisdokter.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/an-early-example-of-sathya-sai-
nonsense/:
Chapter 10 of Part I,  Sri Sathya Sai Baba and the Satellite, deals with the Homer 
Young(s) miracle. It is 4 pages long, and offers a quite detailed description of a six-
year period (1972-1978) in which the scale of the supposed miracle gradually became 
clear to the main characters, Homer and Lila Young(s), and a circle of devotees in the 
same California region.
Laila and Homer Young were a couple living in California. Homer used to work in the 
establishment concerned with launching of satellites.

In 1972, Laila joined a group led by Indra Devi of Mexico, an ardent devotee of 
Swami, and came to Puttaparthi to meet Bhagawan. Homer desired that Puttaparthi 
should be photographed from space right at the time his wife was in Bhagawan’s 
Presence. Several photographs were taken by a satellite from 200 miles above the 
earth. Because of the great distance, no clear details of habitations, hills or buildings 
could be seen in the photographs, which showed only a number of patches and dots 
in black and white that made no sense. When Laila saw them on return from 
Puttaparthi, she felt very much disappointed. Being middle class people, she felt they 
should not have wasted US$60 on these poor pictures.

Several years went by. Some Sai devotees on their way to Tecate to attend the 
wedding of Indra Devi’s daughter visited the Homers’ home. He was then running a 
Sai Book Centre. There were several photos of Bhagawan in different poses in the 
Centre. As the visitors showed interest and liked some of them, Homer showed them 
the satellite pictures of Puttaparthi too. The visitors were closely looking at those 
photographs. Suddenly, a lady cried out, “Here is Sai Baba!” Curiosity aroused, they 
could all discern the face, in profile, of Sri Sathya Sai composed by the numerous 
patches and dots, which had earlier made no sense to Homer and Laila. The image 
was now crystal clear. The crown-like thick black hair on the head, the eyes, the 
shape of the nose and, wonder of wonders, even the birthmark on the cheek of the 
enchanting face of Bhagawan could be clearly seen.

Homer made his own calculations. He took into account longitude and latitude and 
found that the photograph covered a vast area, 40 miles long and 20 miles wide. He 
realized with considerable astonishment, that Swami’s form filled so much area. From 
the data available, Homer concluded that Bhagawan was looking at an extensive area 
surrounding Prashanti Nilayam.

In 1978, Homer came to Puttaparthi to meet Bhagawan. He saw a great circular aura 
around Swami’s head. He took several photographs and showed them to Swami. 
Bhagavan smiled sweetly and said, as Lord Sri Krishna told Arjuna, “These are trifles 
in my boundless divine magnificence (Anantha Mahimas).” These photographs taken 
on 29th November 1972 have been placed for exhibition in the planetarium in 
Prashanti Nilayam.
pub rec on ancestry 999 E Ojai Ave Apt 52, Ojai, Cal.
1940 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co., Cal. chemist aircraft

Parents
YOUNGS Homer Smith (26 Sep 1893 - 24 Nov 1918)
PARKER Geraldine (4 Mar 1894 - 9 Jun 1961)

Siblings
YOUNGS Homer Smith (14 Oct 1917 - 8 Apr 2009)

Marriage To LEWIS Ann Ellwood (14 Jul 1918 - 22 Mar 2009)
    m. 7 Jul 1939 Pasadena, Cal.

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Parents
LEWIS James Ellwood ()
TATE Harriette Durant ()

Children by LEWIS Ann Ellwood 14 Jul 1918 - 22 Mar 2009
YOUNGS Keith Ann ()
YOUNGS Ellwood Lewis (15 Jun 1943 - BEF 2015)
YOUNGS Martyn Tate (2 Jun 1945 - 17 Jul 2015)

Marriage To KRAUS Lila Rose ()

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