Frank Edgar Buck (1873-1965)

BUCK, SHACKELFORD, LONGSDORF

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/1/2016 at 22:29:14

From unknown newspaper March 1965

Frank E. Buck, longtime Ames resident, died

Frank Edgar Buck, 91, 1224 Orchard Drive, died about 8:30 a.m. Sunday at Mary Greeley Hospital after a short illness.

Born in Osborne County, Kan., he came to Ames as an infant. He attended Bloomington school, Ames High School and Teachers State Norma College at Nevada. He was yardmaster and conductor for the Chicago and North Western Railway Co. until he retired in 1942.

From 1943 until 1958, he was sergeant at Ames for the Iowa Senate.

A veteran of the Spanish American War, he was a sergeant in the coast artillery. In World War I, he was sergeant in the 35th railway engineers.

He was a member of St. John's By the Campus Episcopal Church, the Izaak Walton League, a past commander of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts here and past president of the Ames Garden club.

Survivors include his wife, Millis D. Buck; two sons, Francis of Dallas, Tex. and James of Santa Ana, Calif.; three daughters, Ione and Wilma both of Seattle, Wash. and Mrs. Gayola Schackelford of Villa Park, Calif. and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Millie, in 1913 and by four sisters, Mrs. Bertha Longsdorf and Olive, Edith and Vernio Buck.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. from the St. John's by the Campus Episcopal Church with the Rev. Fr. Paul Goodland officiating. Burial is to be in Ames Municipal Cemetery with graveside rites by the American Legion. The body will lie in state Monday and Tuesday at the Adams Funeral Home.