Herman Drager
(1859-1934)
Kathryn Marley
(1854-1934)
Ellen Kathryn Drager
(1897-1983)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Jonas Willard Bucher

Ellen Kathryn Drager 1 2 3

  • Born: 21 Jul 1897, East Donegal Twp., Lancaster, PA 1 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): Jonas Willard Bucher in 1918
  • Died: 24 Feb 1983, Lewisburg, Union, Pennsylvania, United States at age 85 2 3 4
  • Buried: 27 Feb 1983, Selinsgrove: Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Snyder, PA 3

   Another name for Ellen was Ellen Dreger.5

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Ridley Park, Delaware, PA. 1 Living at 407 Free St: Joseph W. Bucher, teacher university, 44, was living with wife Ellen K., 32. He married at age 33, she at 21. Living with them: Robert M., 9; John H., 7; and W. Raymond, 8 months when the census was recorded on 18 Apr 1930. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Residence: 611 N. Orange St., Selinsgrove, PA on 24 Feb 1983 in Selinsgrove, Snyder, PA. 4

3. Obituary: The Daily Item on 25 Feb 1983 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. 4 SELINSGROVE - The funeral for Mrs. Ellen K. Bucher, 85, of 611 N. Orange St., will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Selinsgrove. The Rev. Dr. R. Terrence Foor will officiate. Burial will be in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Selinsgrove RD1. Friends will be received in the church Sunday from noon to the hour of the service. Contributions in her memory may be made to St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Selinsgrove. Funeral arrangements were made by the V. L. Seebold Funeral Home, Selinsgrove.
Mrs. Bucher died at 7:50 a.m. Thursday in the Evangelical Community Hospital, Lewisburg. Born July 21, 1897, in East Donegal Township, she was the daughter of the late Herman and Kathryn Marley Drager. Her husband, Dr. Jonas W. Bucher, an educator, died in 1978. The couple lived in the Philadelphia area about 50 years and in Selinsgrove for 10 years. Mrs. Bucher was a member of St. Paul's United Church of Christ.
Surviving are two sons, Dr. Robert M. of Dauphin Island, Ala., and William R. of North Brook Circle, Ill.; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and one brother, Walter Drager of Columbia. A son, Dr. John H., died in 1975.


Ellen married Jonas Willard Bucher, son of Rev. John Bollinger Bucher and Maggie Brenneman Risser, in 1918. (Jonas Willard Bucher was born on 13 Aug 1885 in Clay Twp., Lancaster, PA,5 6 7 8 died on 8 Jan 1978 in Lewisburg, Union, PA 5 6 8 and was buried in Selinsgrove: Salem Lutheran Cemetery, Snyder, PA.)


Sources


1 1930 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Delaware County, Ridley Park Boro (NW), Series: T626 Roll: 2033 Page: 17.

2 U.S. Social Security Death Index.

3 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138257704.

4 The Daily Item (Sunbury, PA), 25 Feb 1983 page 8 Obituary of Ellen Drager Bucher.

5 Selinsgrove Times Tribune (Selinsgrove, PA), 12 Jan 1978 edition, obituary of Jonas Bucher.

6 Gerberich, Albert H., The Brenneman History (Scottdale, Pa.: Printed by Mennonite Pub. House, 1938, 1240 pgs.), Page 290.

7 1900 United States Census, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County, Clay Township, Series: T623 Roll: 1422 Page: 50-51.

8 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138257759.



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