Who was Dr. Stephen Youngberg?

Dr. youngberg with one of his many little patient

Stephen A. Youngberg, born in South Dakota, was the son of Norwegian immigrant parents who took him to the mission field in India when he was one year old. Stephen grew up in India observing as his parents served the poorest of the poor, thus was born his love for the less privileged. After marrying Verlene DeWitt in 1942, he attended Loma Linda University Medical School graduating in 1946.

He was commissioned as a Captain in the United States Army and received an honorable discharge in 1954. During the 1950's Dr. Youngberg worked in Southern Mexico helping to establish a medical mission there, he later owned successful medical practices in South Texas. After co-founding Pan American Health Service, Inc. in 1959, he moved his family to the Central American country of Honduras in 1960 following the sale of his medical practices in Texas.

Dr. Youngberg loved and was dearly loved by the poor of the region which he served for forty-one years. Dr. Youngberg died in 2001 and he is buried in the PAHS campus cemetery in Peña Blanca.