OBIT: Luna (KIMMEL) YOUNKIN BUTLER, 1944, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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LUNA KIMMEL BUTLER

  Mrs. Luna Kimmel Butler, aged 60, wife of Jonas Butler, died March 15 at the 
home of her daughter in Harnedsville, after a long illness.  She was the 
daughter of the late William J. and Frances Will Kimmel, of Milford Twp.
  She was married to Wesley W. Younkin, who was killed by lightning, Aug. 15, 
1912.  To this union were born the following children who survive: Mrs. Clarence 
Knepper, Bedford; Lloyd Younkin, Springs; Kenneth Younkin, Akron, O.; and Ray 
Younkin, Camp Tyndale, Fla.  An infant son, Paoli Younkin, preceded her in 
death.
  Later she was married to Jonas Butler, who survives, with the following 
children, Mrs. Cyrus Bowser, Harnedsville, with whom she and her husband lived; 
Harold B. Butler, in the U. S. service in the South Pacific; Ralph B., in 
overseas service in England.  One son, Carl Butler, preceded her in death about 
two years ago.  She is also survived by several sisters and a brother, Mrs. 
Norman Maust, Springs; Mrs. A. W. Bruner, Milford, Somerset; Mrs. Norman Gross, 
Black Twp.; Mrs. W. J. Knepper, Milford Twp., and Paul W. Kimmel, Tyrone.
  Funeral services were held on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Oak Grove Mennonite 
Church near Grantsville, Md.  Burial in the church cemetery, under direction of 
Charles B. Humbert, Confluence mortician.

Meyersdale Republican, March 23, 1944