Shirley Jean (Brooks) BUXTON

BUXTON, BROOKS, ANDERSON, SMITH, SKOGURE, DUNN, ANDERSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/8/2012 at 16:58:06

December 24, 1907 -- April 5, 2002

Shirley Buxton, 94, Des Moines, formerly of Webster City, died Friday, April 5, 2002 at the Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the First Congregational Church of Webster City with Rev. James Buffington officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be Wed. from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Foster Funeral Home.

Shirley Jean Brooks, daughter of Thomas and Nellie Anderson Brooks, was born Dec. 24, 1907 at Belmond. She received her education in the Belmond Public School, graduating in 1926. She attended a business school at Grinnell and received a business major and a music minor from the University of Iowa. On May 13, 1933, she married Otho Christian Buxton II at Morrison, Ill. The couple resided in Detroit, Mich., where Dr. Buxton was interning. They moved to Webster City in 1935. She was a receptionist, bookkeeper and secretary for her husband. Dr. Buxton died February 7, 1989. She had resided at the Jewish Senior Life Center in Des Moines for the past year.

Mrs. Buxton is survived by her daughter, Barbara Smith of Des Moines, sons and daughters-in-law, Otho & JuDee Buxton of Clitheral, Minn., Thomas & Lynda Buxton of Augusta, GA.; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; sisters, Oralee Skogure, Eloise Dunn, Merle Andersen.

She was a member of the First Congregational Church, the women's Fellowship, past matron of Sharon Chapter of Order of Eastern Star, former officer of the Newcastle Chapter of the D.A.R., past president of the Webster City Women's Club, board member of the Webster City Schools for five years, past board member of the Hamilton Hospital Auxiliary, member of the Prisoner of War Wives-World War II, she taught at Webster City junior and senior high schools, she also taught as a substitute teacher, taught piano, and enjoyed reading, sewing and bridge. Memorials may be given to the First Congregational Church.

Daily Freeman Journal -- Webster City, Iowa
8 April 2002