OBIT: Daniel Garfield YOUNKIN, 1949, Confluence, Somerset County, PA

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DANIEL GARFIELD YOUNKIN

  D. Garfield Younkin, 69, Confluence, died Saturday night, Aug. 27, at the 
Deshon Veterans Hospital, Butler, having been admitted there on Thursday 
following a paralytic stroke suffered on Monday.
  He was the son of the late James Dempsey and Phoebe Ann (Burkholder) Younkin, 
and was born May 27, 1880 in Fayette County.  For the past ten years he had been 
retired from the teaching profession, having taught in Arizona where he lived 
many years.  He spent the winters in that state ever since, and the summers in 
Confluence.
  Surviving him are two children, Bryce and Ruth, both of Palo Alto, Calif.; two 
grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Grace Shannon of Connellsville, and Mrs. Victor 
Ausbury, Chicago, and one brother, Blaine, Confluence.
  Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Black Funeral Home, the 
Rev. Harold Kinard officiating.  Interment was in the Han Cemetery, Clay Run.

Meyersdale Republican, September 1, 1949