FRANCENA M. BUCK
Mrs. Norman Buck is Dead at Yakima
Pioneer Spokane and Lewiston Woman to be Buried at Idaho City
Mrs. Francena M. Buck, widow of the late Judge Norman Buck of Spokane, died last evening at the home of her son, N. K. Buck in Yakima. The funeral will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow at Lewiston, Idaho. Mrs. Buck was in her 90th year and was in fairly good health until recently. The burial will be beside her husband's body in the Lewiston cemetery.

Mrs. Buck had been a pioneer much of her life. She was born in New York state and came west as a baby in arms travelling by ox team through a muddy road to where Chicago stands. Her father, Chauncy Kellogg, was a pioneer in Wisconsin. The daughter, the youngest of 13 children, aspired to higher education than girls usually received in those days and she graduated from Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis. It is said that she and another in her class were the first woman graduates in a classical course in America -- perhaps in the world.

Nurse In Civil War
She was also a pioneer in American women's war work. In the southern camps of the Union army she was a nurse doing what was in effect "Red Cross" work, then known as "Christian Commissioner" work. She and Judge Buck were married in a southern camp during the war. Before the war she was the first woman bookkeeper in Chicago, working for Potter Palmer.

Mrs. Buck was a pioneer advocate of temperance and woman's suffrage and lectured for those causes. She was born of pure American stock, but sometimes lectured in German.

Came to Lewiston 43 Years Ago
Judge and Mrs. Buck after the Civil war lived at Winona, Minn., several years and came to Lewiston 43 years ago, where Mr. Buck was a pioneer member of the Idaho territorial supreme court. Later he was a judge of the superior court in Spokane county where they resided for many years. In Spokane Mrs. Buck was not only a recognized leader in conference work, but also was a leader in church affairs, being a member of the First Methodist, now the Central Methodist church.

For several years Mrs. Buck had been living at the home of her son, Attorney N. K. Buck, manager of the Liberty Savings and Loan association of Yakima. Storey Buck, another son, is northwest editor of the Spokane Chronicle.
Source: Spokane Daily Chronicle - January 1, 1926