Fred J. Buss, 66, retired Sioux City school principal, died Tuesday, June 7, 1988, at his residence in Sioux City after a lengthy illness of cancer. Services were held in Calvary Lutheran Church with Rev. Ronald Flentgen and Rev. Steve Benson officiating. Burial followed in Fairfield Cemetery, Rock Branch, under direction of Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel. Mr. Buss was born May 30, 1922, in George, Iowa, where he attended schools and graduated from George High School in 1940. He married Lorna F. Althaus December 18, 1943, at Salem Lutheran Church in Correctionville. He received his bachelor's degree from Westmar College in 1947 and his master's degree from Colorado State College in Greeley in 1952. He did additional graduate work at the University of South Dakota, University of Iowa and Northern Michigan University at Marquette, Michigan. He was an industrial arts teacher at Woodbine, Iowa, from 1947-1949 where he also coached the baseball, basketball, football and track teams. He then taught in George for four years and also coached girl's basketball and boy's basketball and baseball. The couple moved to Sioux City in 1953 and he taught physical education and coached freshman boy's basketball at West Junior High School. In 1956 he was appointed principal at Riverview and Webster schools. He became principal of only Riverview School in 1957, a position he held for twenty-eight years until his retirement. He was a well-known northwest Iowa sports official for forty years, officiating at basketball, football and baseball games. He was instrumental in organizing youth baseball in Sioux City and coached Little League, Babe Ruth and legion teams. He was a member of the Iowa High School Athletic Assn. and lifetime member of N.E.A. He was a member of Calvary Lutheran Church where he taught Sunday school, coached girl's basketball, served on several sessions of the Church Council and was a past president of the council. A captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he served as a radar navigator and bombardier in the Pacific theater. Survivors include his wife, two sons, Michael and Daniel; three daughters, Mary, Marjean and Betsy; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Elzenga of Long Beach, California, and Mrs. Henry (Johanna) Heerkens of Rochester, New York, and five grandchildren.