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Funeral services were held in <strong>the</strong> Methodist church at Unadilla, of which she was a<br />

member, Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. William Heapps, pastor of <strong>the</strong> church,<br />

officiated, <strong>and</strong> burial was in Evergreen Hill cemetery, Unadilla. Bearers were<br />

gr<strong>and</strong>sons <strong>and</strong> nephews, Dr. Frankin J. Youngs, Robert Youngs, William Youngs,<br />

Rodney Schaeffer, Ernest Rutenber, <strong>and</strong> [rest of obit not copied].<br />

Mabel Alice Youngs Robinson 1892 - 1935<br />

Mrs. Mable Youngs Robinson (Sidney Center correspondent.)<br />

Sidney Center friends <strong>and</strong> relatives of Mrs. Mable Youngs Robinson were grieved to<br />

learn of her death, which occurred at <strong>the</strong> Johnson City hospital on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at<br />

4:45 a. m.<br />

Mrs. Robinson had been in poor health for some time, but lately had appeared to be<br />

better. She had gone to <strong>the</strong> city <strong>the</strong> last of <strong>the</strong> week to view <strong>the</strong> annual Christmas<br />

parade <strong>and</strong> had attended to her usual household duties on Monday. At about 4:30 p. m.<br />

she went to <strong>the</strong> kitchen to prepare food for <strong>the</strong> evening meal, when her fa<strong>the</strong>r-in-law<br />

heard her fall. He found that she had started to go upstairs <strong>and</strong> was stricken with<br />

apoplexy after descending <strong>the</strong> first few steps. He found her in an unconscious<br />

condition. She was taken immediately to <strong>the</strong> hospital in Johnson City, where she died<br />

about twelve hours later.<br />

Mrs. Robinson possessed a sunny disposition which won her many friends in this<br />

vicinity. She was born at Youngs on July 30, 1892, <strong>the</strong> daughter of G. Reno <strong>and</strong><br />

Corlinda Gifford Youngs. The family moved to Sidney Center about nineteen years<br />

ago. She was a graduate of <strong>the</strong> Unadilla high school <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Unadilla [teacher] training<br />

class of 1912. After teaching in surrounding rural schools for a few years she attended<br />

Oneonta normal <strong>and</strong> was graduated from <strong>the</strong>re. She accepted a position as teacher of<br />

<strong>the</strong> first grade at <strong>the</strong> North Side school in Endicott sixteen years age, where she taught<br />

continuously until this year, tow of which she taught in Johnson City <strong>and</strong> two years of<br />

absence because of illness.<br />

Mrs. Robinson for many years was an earnest worker <strong>and</strong> member of <strong>the</strong> Sidney Center<br />

Methodist Episcopal church, later taking her letter to <strong>the</strong> Boulevard church in Johnson<br />

City.<br />

She was married to John Robinson fourteen years ago at <strong>the</strong> home of her parents in<br />

Sidney Center. Besides her husb<strong>and</strong>, she is survived by a daughter, Susan, aged 6; her<br />

parents, Mr. <strong>and</strong> Mrs. G. R. Youngs; two sisters, Mrs. Susan DePuy <strong>and</strong> Mrs. Annabelle<br />

Long, all of Sidney Center; one bro<strong>the</strong>r, Albert Youngs, of Youngs; five nieces <strong>and</strong> one<br />

nephew.

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