Burwell Overton Buchanan

1919 - 2012  (92 years)

• Name	Burwell Overton Buchanan
  Born	31 Aug 1919	Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Apr 2012	Kill Devil Hills, NC.
  Person ID	I22312	Tofterå Slettemoen
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2014

  
  

  Father	Richard Henry Buchanan,   b. 13 Jan 1884, Virginia, USA ,   d. 7 Jun 1968, Brooklyn, Kings, New York  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Gladys Krogh,   b. 30 Aug 1889, Emporia, Virginia ,   d. 17 Sep 1976, Brooklyn, Kings, New York  (Age 87 years)
  Married	27 Nov 1912	Weymouth, Mass.
  Family ID	F7182	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marie Kummer,   b. 4 May 1920, Ohio ,   d. 8 Dec 2003, Fairview Park, Cuyahoga County, Ohio  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2014
  Family ID	F7672	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  KILL DEVIL HILLS- Burwell O. "Buck" Buchanan, 93, of Kill Devil Hills passed away peacefully in his residence on April 15, 2012. Loving husband of the late Marie Kummer Buchanan [4 May 1920 - 8 Dec 2003]; brother of the late Richard and Audrey (Powers), father of Judy (Jim Parker) of Philadelphia, PA and Richard (Viviane) of Fairview Park, OH and proud grandfather of Andrew, Lucy, Taryn and Catherine. Born in Norfolk, VA, the family moved to Brooklyn, NY when Buck was 12. He served in the Army Air Corps in WWII as a C-47 pilot in the 79th Troop Carrier Squadron of the 436th Troop Carrier Group and also participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. After the war he settled in Cleveland, OH and spent several years as a teacher and counselor at Fairview High School. His next career was as an inspector of the U.S. Immigration Service from which he retired in 1983. He became an accomplished painter of beach scenes, light houses, etc., inspired by the beautiful surrounding of the Outer Banks after he retired.