OBITUARY: Elaine Leigh Granath Young, 40, Passed Away After Seven-Month Battle with Ovarian Cancer

excelled in choirs at Apollo Elementary, Jackson Middle School and Titusville High

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Elaine Leigh Granath Young, 40, passed away May 19, 2024, following a seven-month battle with ovarian cancer.

She was born Jan. 16, 1984 in Atlanta, but her family moved to Titusville when she was two months old.

From an early age, she developed a passion for music and performed her first solo during a church service at the age of four. She excelled in choirs at Apollo Elementary School, Jackson Middle School and Titusville High School.

Elaine decided to follow her father’s footsteps in the public relations profession, earning a bachelor’s degree in communications and minoring in music. She graduated from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2006.

Soon after, she became a public relations representative for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

In 2007, Elaine moved to California. Beginning in 2018, she was employed by KB Home, a large homebuilder with offices in Los Angeles. After holding increasingly responsible positions, she became Risk Management administrator and assistant corporate secretary.

Elaine’s fellow employees honored her service with a proclamation stating in part, “Madame Granath is an extraordinary special colleague and truly inspiring soul of uncommon courage and tenacity, who we are deeply grateful to have had the good fortune to know.”

Elaine is survived by her husband, Brian Young of Los Angeles; parents, June and Bob Granath of Titusville; “second mom,” Jeannie Johnson of Titusville; father-in-law, Alan Young of Las Vegas, Nevada; aunts and uncles Nancy and David Granath of Florence, South Carolina; Lisa and Steve Granath of Douglasville, Georgia; cousins Katie and Jason Smith of Tampa; Andrea Granath of Florence; and Kristen Tate of Douglasville.

Visitation will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, 2024, at First Baptist Church of Titusville with funeral following at 3 p.m. Interment will follow the funeral at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens in Titusville.

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