Fay Bucher ^{1 2}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She has conflicting birth information of Aug 1886 and Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ²

2. Census in 1900 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ² Living at 522 Front Street in Sunbury in a home he owned was William D. Bucher, day laborer, 46, born May 1854, with wife Ellen M., 39, born Nov 1860; and daughter Fay, 13, born Aug 1886. The couple had been married 15 years and had one child by 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

[Note: while the 1900 Census lists William's wife's name as Ellen M., the 1910 Census and various obituaries confirm it was Elmira.].

3. Census in 1910 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ⁴ Living at 522 S. Front Street in 1910 is William D. Bucher, painter and paper hanger, age 54, married for 24 years to wife Elmira, 41, who had birthed one child by 1910: Fay, daughter, 21, single. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Obituary: Sunbury Daily Item newspaper on 19 Feb 1960 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ³ Headline: Miss Bucher, 75, Native of Sunbury

Miss Fay L. Bucher, 522 South Front Street, Sunbury, died in her home Thursday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock of complications. She had been in failing health the past year. Her age was 75 years, five months, and 28 days.

Miss Bucher was born in Sunbury, August 20, 1884, a daughter of the late William D. and Elmira D. Slough Bucher, and lived here her entire life. She was the last of her immediate family.

Her affiliations included membership in Grace Lutheran Church.

Surviving are a number of cousins.

Funeral services will be from the Dornsife funeral home Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Rev. Jesse E. Wolf, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, officiating. Interment will be in West Side Cemetery. Friends will be received by the family at the funeral home this evening between 7 and 9 o'clock.