Tommy Ray Buckner

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Tommy Ray Buckner

Birth
Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Death
30 Dec 1942 (aged 6 months)
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Weaverville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Row 19 Site 7
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Only one of Ross' & Eupha's 12 children who died in infancy. His death certificate states he died from influenzal meningitis at Aston Park Hospital in Asheville NC.

My dad remembers his baby brother as a big, happy baby who was always smiling; Tommy took sick quickly and spent several weeks in the hospital before he died. Grandmother was with him all the time.

Tommy was survived by his parents, two brothers, Max and Donald, seven sisters, Evelyn, Doris, Frances, Helen, Marie, Barbara, and Mary June, paternal grandmother, Malissia Metcalf Buckner; maternal grandparents, Jim & Hester Rice Burrell; and maternal great-grandmother, Margaret Messer Hensley.

Tommy’s funeral was held on New Years Day, Friday, January 1, 1943, graveside at Locust Grove Baptist Church; services were conducted by Rev. Guy West and Rev. Vaughn Fisher.

Pallbearers: Gene Capps, Gene Harron, Carol Roberts, and Wilfred Black.

Flowerbearers: June Capps, Hilda Burrell, and Billie Burrell.

If anyone has a photo of him, please post. We only have a gravesite photo of him before his casket was closed.

Full obituary may be located here:
Asheville Citizen-Times
Buckner, Tommy Ray
1943 Jan 1 p2

NCDC Buncombe County 1942 #169
Locust Grove Cemetery
West Funeral Home
Weaverville, NC
Only one of Ross' & Eupha's 12 children who died in infancy. His death certificate states he died from influenzal meningitis at Aston Park Hospital in Asheville NC.

My dad remembers his baby brother as a big, happy baby who was always smiling; Tommy took sick quickly and spent several weeks in the hospital before he died. Grandmother was with him all the time.

Tommy was survived by his parents, two brothers, Max and Donald, seven sisters, Evelyn, Doris, Frances, Helen, Marie, Barbara, and Mary June, paternal grandmother, Malissia Metcalf Buckner; maternal grandparents, Jim & Hester Rice Burrell; and maternal great-grandmother, Margaret Messer Hensley.

Tommy’s funeral was held on New Years Day, Friday, January 1, 1943, graveside at Locust Grove Baptist Church; services were conducted by Rev. Guy West and Rev. Vaughn Fisher.

Pallbearers: Gene Capps, Gene Harron, Carol Roberts, and Wilfred Black.

Flowerbearers: June Capps, Hilda Burrell, and Billie Burrell.

If anyone has a photo of him, please post. We only have a gravesite photo of him before his casket was closed.

Full obituary may be located here:
Asheville Citizen-Times
Buckner, Tommy Ray
1943 Jan 1 p2

NCDC Buncombe County 1942 #169
Locust Grove Cemetery
West Funeral Home
Weaverville, NC

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He is now at rest with Jesus

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Thank you so much to Walter Myers for sponsoring Tommy's memorial page. I appreciate it very, very much!!

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