Russell Howard Young ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Cause of Death: strangulation due to hanging, 20 Apr 1959, Point Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States. ²

2. Obituary: The Selinsgrove Times-Tribune on 23 Apr 1959 in Selinsgrove, Snyder, PA. ¹ Russell Young, County Native, Hangs Self
Russell H. Young, Sr., of R. R. 1, Northumberland, and native of Monroe Township, hanged himself in a shop to the rear of his home Monday. He was 64 years old.
He was born May 10, 1894 and was the son of Mrs. Emma Jane Humml Young, and the late A. Riley Young. In 1923 he was married to Mary E. Bucher, in Milton.
For a number of years he served as freight trucker for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He has been retired since January of 1945 because of ill health.
Surviving are his widow; his mother, who resides in R. R. 2, Selinsgrove; a son, Russel H. Young, Jr., of R. R. 1, Sunbury; two daughters, Mrs. Orville Snyder, of Paxinos; and Mrs. William Yoxheimer, of R. R. 1, Northumberland; two sisters, Mrs. Blanche Haines, of Northumberland; and Mrs. Melba Bastress, of R. R., Selinsgrove; and two brothers, Benjamin R.
Young, of Northumberland; and Marlin E. Young, of R. R. 2, Selinsgrove.
Funeral srvices were held this afternoon from the Burk Funeral Home in Northumberland and interment was in Upper Harmony Cemetery, Milton.
The Rev. Frank H. Sanders, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, Northumberland, of which Mr. Young was a member, officiated.

Russell married Mary E. Bucher, daughter of William Henry Bucher and Sarah Catharine Kelley, on 19 Aug 1923 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA.¹ (Mary E. Bucher was born on 8 Nov 1899 in Milton, Northumberland, PA,³ died on 14 Dec 1981 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA ⁴ and was buried on 16 Dec 1981 in Milton, Northumberland, PA ⁴.)