OBIT: Wesley D. YOUNKIN, 1943, Kingwood, Somerset County, PA

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WESLEY D. YOUNKIN

  Wesley D. Younkin of Kingwood died last Saturday night in the Somerset 
Hospital, the result of a gunshot wound in the head, believed to have been self-
inflicted.
  Younkin was found in an unconscious condition at his home on March 17 and was 
removed to the Somerset Hospital, where he rallied and appeared to be on the 
road to recovery.  He suffered a relapse however, last week.
  The bullet, from a .22-caliber rifle, entered the man's right temple, and 
passed through his right eye.
  When the man was discovered by relatives he was on the floor of his bedroom, 
but there were blood-stains on the kitchen floor.  Investigators expressed the 
belief that Younkin shot himself in the kitchen and walked to his bedroom before 
he collapsed.
  Funeral arrangements were in charge of Mills & Mickey, Rockwood morticians.

Meyersdale Republican, April 8, 1943