Mrs. Buckner was born in Minden on July 30, 1911, and passed away at Claiborne Manor Nursing Home November 19, 2001.
Mrs. Buckner was a graduate of the Shreveport Charity Hospital School of Nursing in 1933. Her nursing employment included private duty, Claiborne Parish School Health Unit and Homer Memorial Hospital before retiring as Director of Nurses at Bienville General Hospital in 1979. She was a dedicated caregiver who touched many lives.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Grady D. Buckner, parents Laura Dalton Davis and Thomas Lewis Davis, siblings Lewis Davis, Thomas Clay Davis, Susie Stephens, Myrtle Atkins, and Vesta Holyfield.
Survivors include her daughter Ina Claire Daniel; grandchildren, Stephanie Gantt and husband Vick, Dr. Ray Spurlock and wife Chris, Bucky Hemphill and wife Sissy; great grandchildren, Rance and Chance Gantt, Chip, Emily and Rudi Spurlock and Luke and Levi Richardson. Mrs. Buckner is also survived by sister-in-law Myrtis Mulhearn and sister-in-law and friend Jeri Buckner as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be her great grandsons.
The family would like to thank Dr. Sam Abshire and Dr. Clint Butler for their excellent medical care and compassion and special friend and caregiver Thelma Faulk.
Memorials may be made to the Athens Methodist Church where she attended for 67 years.
Rose-Neath Funeral Home
Arcadia Chapel, 318-263-2094
Mrs. Buckner was born in Minden on July 30, 1911, and passed away at Claiborne Manor Nursing Home November 19, 2001.
Mrs. Buckner was a graduate of the Shreveport Charity Hospital School of Nursing in 1933. Her nursing employment included private duty, Claiborne Parish School Health Unit and Homer Memorial Hospital before retiring as Director of Nurses at Bienville General Hospital in 1979. She was a dedicated caregiver who touched many lives.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Grady D. Buckner, parents Laura Dalton Davis and Thomas Lewis Davis, siblings Lewis Davis, Thomas Clay Davis, Susie Stephens, Myrtle Atkins, and Vesta Holyfield.
Survivors include her daughter Ina Claire Daniel; grandchildren, Stephanie Gantt and husband Vick, Dr. Ray Spurlock and wife Chris, Bucky Hemphill and wife Sissy; great grandchildren, Rance and Chance Gantt, Chip, Emily and Rudi Spurlock and Luke and Levi Richardson. Mrs. Buckner is also survived by sister-in-law Myrtis Mulhearn and sister-in-law and friend Jeri Buckner as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be her great grandsons.
The family would like to thank Dr. Sam Abshire and Dr. Clint Butler for their excellent medical care and compassion and special friend and caregiver Thelma Faulk.
Memorials may be made to the Athens Methodist Church where she attended for 67 years.
Rose-Neath Funeral Home
Arcadia Chapel, 318-263-2094
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