Winton W. Buckley 1926 - 2009

BUCKLEY, OWEN, MARQUESEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/27/2013 at 11:45:12

Sioux City Journal
15 November 2009

SIOUX CITY -- Winton W. Buckley, 83, of Sioux City, died Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, at his home. A longtime Sioux City resident, Winton Buckley moved to Sioux City with his wife, Charmaine in 1971, upon becoming chairman of Iowa-Nebraska State Bank (formerly Nebraska State Bank).

Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel. Visitation with family present will be one hour prior to services Saturday at the funeral home. A reception will be held following the services at Dakota Dunes Country Club.

Winton was born Aug. 30, 1926, in York, Neb., the son of Winton W. and Bernice (Owen) Buckley. He graduated from York High School in 1944, and went on to the University of Nebraska, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and earned a letter as a Cornhusker football player. He graduated in 1949. Winton served twice in the U.S. Army, first in 1945, and second from 1951 to 1953 as a 1st lieutenant, serving in Germany.

Winton married Charmaine Marquesen of Mitchell, S.D., in 1951, and they had six children. After his second term in the Army, they spent the next eight years of their marriage, 1953 to 1960, operating a farm northwest of York, Neb. From 1960 to 1971, Winton worked for the National Bank of Commerce in Lincoln, Neb. In 1971, he moved his family to Sioux City, where he and his business partner, Roy Yaley, purchased and managed the Nebraska State Bank, now known as Iowa-Nebraska State Bank. During this time, he and the late Roy Yaley, partnered in the management and ownership of The First National Bank of Wilcox and The Wakefield National Bank, both in Nebraska, along with the State Savings Bank, later known as Iowa State Bank in Hornick and Onawa in Iowa. Retiring in 1993, Winton enjoyed his family and friends, tennis, hunting, fishing and Nebraska football.

Winton was involved in civic and community groups throughout his life. He was a former president of the South Sioux City Chamber of Commerce and the Dakota County Development Corporation. Early in his career while farming near York, he co-founded the Fair Tax Association to protect and defend farmers from unfair and discriminatory state tax impositions, an effort in which he took pride. Winton was a University of Nebraska Foundation Trustee, a member of the American Legion, VFW, York Masonic Lodge 56 A.F. & A.M., the Nebraska York Rite Chapters 33 and 17, the Abu Bekr Shriners A.AO.N.M.S. of Sioux City and Royal Order of Jesters, Sioux City Court No. 124. He was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Sioux City.

Survivors include his wife, Charmaine of Sioux City; six children, Winton Buckley III and his wife, Nena of Houston, Texas, Mitzi Overland and Bren Buckley, both of Plymouth, Minn., Mark Buckley and his wife, Marie of Dakota Dunes, Owen Buckley and his wife, Lynne of Kansas City, Mo., and Charmaine DeMarco and her husband, Peter of Ridgewood, N.J.; his sister, Jean Desch and her husband, Bill of Peoria, Ariz.; and 13 grandchildren.

Winton was preceded in death by his father, in 1941, and his mother in 1973.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Siouxland.