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Submitted: 5/18/21 • Approved: 5/21/21 • Last Updated: 5/24/21 • R419643-G0-S3
MASTER SERGEANT US Marine Corps
November 20, 1919-July 12, 1975
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Vernon M. Buckner, 55, of 202 W. Seventh St., who died early Saturday at his home, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Minton Memorial Chapel.
The Rev. Leonard Forsythe, pastor of the Bible Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Buckner, a retired Marine master sergeant, was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. Saturday at his home by Justice of the Peace G.H. Turpin, who acted as coroner.
He had lived most of his life in the Borger area, and had retired from the Marines in 1964.
Survivors include his widow, Gilda of Carlsbad, Calif.; one son, Paul Robert of Carlsbad; his mother, Mrs. Minnie Buckner of Borger; three brothers, Val Buckner of Borger, Robert of Columbia, South America, and Jerry of Mansfield, Ark.; and one sister, Mrs. E.D. Speegle of Odessa.
(Published in Borger News Herald, July 12 & 13, 1975)
Contributed on 5/18/21
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