Children: Levinia and Linda Faye Buxton
Personal Info:
Gordon Buxton was born Oct 17 1915, at Wilkie, probably with Dr. McLurg attending.
That year there was a bumper crop in this area and there will be one next year. He grew up on the famr with other brothers and sisters who could tell me he could be found under a bed reading a book when there was work to be done.
After the flu in 1918, he thought he could walk by himself but fell all the way downstairs- he had to learn to walk again.
Mrs. Henry King was there to help the family and she told me Gordon crawled into the oven of the home comfort stove to get warm- luckily nobody fired up with another stick of wood.
As a child Gordon suffered fequently with attacks of bronchitis and had to stay indoors alot of the time in the winter.
He also missed alot of school during the winter months.
He started to school in Wilkie, (called the TRAMPING LAKE SCHOOL) at the age of five & completed the tenth grade; he had to help every spring and fall with farm work so decided against futher education.
During the seeding in 1940, he was taken off the seed drill and taken to Wilkie Hospital where Dr. Hutchenson removed the appendix in the middle of the night.
In the morning he had his first taste of hospital routine and met Olive Mundie, the nurse who had the job of removing the dust and dirt of the seeding operations.
After compulsory military training in Dundurn he was given exemption to help his father on the family farm as three of the boys had enlisted.
Children: Levinia and Linda Faye Buxton
Personal Info:
Gordon Buxton was born Oct 17 1915, at Wilkie, probably with Dr. McLurg attending.
That year there was a bumper crop in this area and there will be one next year. He grew up on the famr with other brothers and sisters who could tell me he could be found under a bed reading a book when there was work to be done.
After the flu in 1918, he thought he could walk by himself but fell all the way downstairs- he had to learn to walk again.
Mrs. Henry King was there to help the family and she told me Gordon crawled into the oven of the home comfort stove to get warm- luckily nobody fired up with another stick of wood.
As a child Gordon suffered fequently with attacks of bronchitis and had to stay indoors alot of the time in the winter.
He also missed alot of school during the winter months.
He started to school in Wilkie, (called the TRAMPING LAKE SCHOOL) at the age of five & completed the tenth grade; he had to help every spring and fall with farm work so decided against futher education.
During the seeding in 1940, he was taken off the seed drill and taken to Wilkie Hospital where Dr. Hutchenson removed the appendix in the middle of the night.
In the morning he had his first taste of hospital routine and met Olive Mundie, the nurse who had the job of removing the dust and dirt of the seeding operations.
After compulsory military training in Dundurn he was given exemption to help his father on the family farm as three of the boys had enlisted.
Family Members
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Annie Vida Buxton Rumble
1906–1985
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Norman Edgar Buxton
1908–1973
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Vera Irene Buxton Townsend
1910–1999
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Samuel Ivan Buxton
1912–1935
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Howard Leslie Buxton
1914–1987
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James Earl Buxton Jr
1917–1918
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Eric Gerald Buxton
1919–1991
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Geraldine Buxton
1919–1919
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Kenneth Elmer Buxton
1922–2000
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Donald Eugene Buxton
1924–2009
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May Agnes Buxton
1927–1997
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