RIMERSBURG, Clarion County — Authorities don’t know what drove a man to fatally shoot his wife before taking his own life.

State police said James “Jobe” Yoder and Anna Mae Yoder, both 70, died Thursday in a murder-suicide at his bungalow-style house on Maple Grove Road.

Yoder shot his wife with a 12-gauge shotgun. He then turned the gun on himself, according to investigators.

A neighbor heard the shots about 5:40 p.m. and notified authorities.

Anna Yoder’s body was found in the bathroom. She was standing when her husband shot her, Clarion County Coroner Terry Shaffer said.

“She probably died instantly,” said Shaffer, who pronounced the couple dead at the scene.

After shooting his wife, investigators said, Yoder walked to his bedroom and shot himself in the head.

Police found no suicide note to explain Yoder’s actions. Authorities said neither alcohol nor drugs was a suspected contributing factor in the shooting.

No autopsies were conducted.

The couple reportedly had not been married long. Anna Yoder, investigators said, still owned her own home a couple miles away in the Rimersburg area.

Both apparently had been married before. Yoder, who worked for the United Mine Workers, was preceded in death by a son and he had several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Anna Yoder is survived by a son, who lives in northern Clarion County, authorities said.

The Bauer-Hillis Funeral Home in Rimersburg is handling Yoder’s funeral arrangements.

The Burns Funeral Home in Rimersburg in handling Anna Yoder’s arrangements.