This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buck, Shriber, Crook, Campbell, Weingardt, Beehler, Brennan, Mars, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QFB.2ACE/1576 Message Board Post: Howard Kendall Buck, known as "Kendall", age 91, of Hastings, passed away May 2, 2005 at Moore's Adult foster Care in Charlotte. Mr. Buck was born November 10, 1913 in Barry County, the son of John Byington Buck and Anna (Shriber) Buck. Kendall graduated from Woodland High School. He later became a Journeyman Tool & Die Maker, working for 42 years in machine shops, including over 31 years at the E. W. Bliss Company in Hastings. Kendall married Ethel Alce Crook on January 9, 1937, and together they raised five children on the family farm. They had been married 66 years when Ethel passed away in May of 2003. Kendall lived his entire life in the Hastings area except for the last three years which were spent living in Charlotte with his son and daughter-in-law, Douglas and Nola Buck. When he was younger, he enjoyed traveling, hunting, fishing, and working in his vegetable garden. The last few years, he liked to "go out for lunch" and then spend warm afternoons sitting on! the back patio watching the birds, squirrels and bunnies enjoying their lives. Mr. Buck was preceded in death by his wife, his parents; a brother, Oscar Buck; grandson, Allen Buck and several half-brothers and sisters. Surviving him are his five children, Doreen (John) Campbell of Charlotte, Douglas (Nola) Buck of Charlotte, Lawrence "Eddy" (Barbara) Buck of Hastings, Marjorie (Dennis) Weingardt of Denver, Colorado, Roseanne (David) Beehler of Golden, Colorado; grandchildren, Joan (Michael) Brennan, Thomas Campbell, Kimberlee (Ruben) Mars, Stephanie Buck, Stacey Buck, Nicholas Weingardt, Laura Weingardt, Brandon Beehler, Ryan Beehler, Michelle Beehler; great-grandchildren, Samuel Patrick and Margaret Brennan and Samantha and Carson Campbell, and their mother, Laura Campbell. Also surviving are two sisters, Orpha Enz-Desgranges and Achsah Munson-Evrard, and many nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be held Friday, May 27, 2005 at 11 a.m. at Welcome Corners United ! Methodist Church. Rev. Robert Smith officiating. Memorial contributi ons may be made to the Welcome Corners United Methodist Church, 3185 N. M-43 Hwy., Hastings, MI 49058, or the charity of one's choice. Burial will be at Fuller Cemetery, following the luncheon at the church. Arrangements are by the Girrbach Funeral Home in Hastings. (The Hastings "Reminder" - Tuesday, May 17, 2005) Transcriber has no family connection