Services Held For Pfc. Kenneth Buckles. Gravesite services for Pfc. Kenneth C. Buckles, formerly of Sterling, were held in the Sterling cemetery at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Pfc. Buckles was born in Hutchinson April 1, 1918, and was drowned March 3, 1944, when a landing barge in which he was riding capsized off the coast of North Africa.
He is survived by his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Buckles, 1007 East Sherman, Hutchinson; three sisters, Mrs. Max Parris [Parrish] and Mrs. Albert Pyatt, both of Garden City, and Mrs. Henry Belden, Sterling; a step-sister, Mrs. Jack Hanselman, Burrton; and an uncle, William Rankle [Reinke], near Sylvia, who helped raise Mr. Buckles after his mother died six months after birth.
Services Held For Pfc. Kenneth Buckles. Gravesite services for Pfc. Kenneth C. Buckles, formerly of Sterling, were held in the Sterling cemetery at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. Pfc. Buckles was born in Hutchinson April 1, 1918, and was drowned March 3, 1944, when a landing barge in which he was riding capsized off the coast of North Africa.
He is survived by his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Buckles, 1007 East Sherman, Hutchinson; three sisters, Mrs. Max Parris [Parrish] and Mrs. Albert Pyatt, both of Garden City, and Mrs. Henry Belden, Sterling; a step-sister, Mrs. Jack Hanselman, Burrton; and an uncle, William Rankle [Reinke], near Sylvia, who helped raise Mr. Buckles after his mother died six months after birth.
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