Children
No Issue
Sibling(s):
Beulah
Houck
Fannie Houck
Norman Houck
Harold Houck
Orville Asa Houck
Arietta Houck
Willard Houck |
Notes: Buried
Easton Heights Cemetery, Easton, Northampton County, PA.
Easton Express, Thursday, September 13, 1945, Page 14
Clad Houck, 44, Bus Driver, Died Of Bullet Wound
Clad Darcy Houck, 44, of 206 East Kleinhans avenue, a Lehigh
Valley Transit Co. Bus driver, was found dead yesterday at
6:25 p.m. in the attic of his home from a bullet wound.
Easton police were notified and Dr. David F. Bachman, Northampton
County coroner investigat4d and issued a certificate of death “from
a gunshot would of the skull and brain with a .38 caliber
special police revolver used in the hand of the deceased
with suicidal intent.”
Houck’s wife and his brother-in-law, Henry Schafer,
were standing in the back yard of the Houck home when the
shot was fired. They rushed to the third floor and found
Houck slumped on the floor. Easton Hospital ambulance was
summoned and he was pronounced dead.
He was born July 23, 1901, I Raubsville, son of the late
Ezra and Lily Brower Houck, and resided on Kleinhans avenue
since May last year. He had been in the employ of the Transit
Company for the last 20 years, and was a ember of the Fleas
Club, South Side.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Francis McGary Houck;
two step-sons; two sisters, Mrs. Henry D. Schafer, Jr. of
Easton, and Mrs. Clark Cooper, Chatham, N.J., and two brothers,
Harold Houck of Easton, and Orville Houck, of York.
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