Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Buck, Mrs. W. W., 1940
Tuesday, July 11, 2000

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The Junction Eagle, December 26, 1940
Copied with permission

                       Mrs. W. W. Buck Is Laid To Rest On December 21st

  Funeral services for Mrs. Corrie Stroud Buck were held Saturday afternoon, December 21st,  
at three o'clock at the Schreiner-Hodges Funeral Home with Rev. Geo. B. McCrary, pastor of 
the Junction Methodist Church officiating.  Interment was made in the Junction Cemetery.
  Special hymns for the service were impressively rendered by Mrs. Weaver H. Baker, Miss
Austin Durst, Kittrell Durst and Rev. Geo. McCrary.
  Active pallbearers for the service were Jack Turner, E. O. Lowgren, Lewis Jetton, Fred
Coleman, Barney Williams, Vann Martin, B. B. Ragland and Earl D. Tracy.
  Mrs. Corrie Stroud Buck was born December 23, 1859, and she died Friday noon, December 20,
after an illness of ten days.
  Mrs. Buck was born in Limstone county, a member of a pioneer plantation family, her parents
coming to Texas from Georgia and Carolina.  Typical of the early day families, she was one
of eleven children.  She spent her early childhood days in Limstone county and received her
education from Trinity University at Tehuacana, Texas, prior to the time it was re-established
at Waxahachie.
  Deceased was married to W. W. Buck, a jeweler, in Hillsboro, Hill County, in 1881, where they
resided until moving to Kimble county.  To this happy union, five children were born.  The
family moved to Kimble county in the fall of 1911 to enter the ranch business and settled on
the site of the present home place where Mrs. Buck lived until death.
  Mrs. Buck joined the Methodist Church early in life and maintained a faithful membership,
although her increasing years prevented her personal participation in the active work of
the church.
  She was held in high esteem by her many friends and loved and appreciated by all who knew her.
Her simple life, easy manner and soft spoken words were exemplary of the life she fulfilled.
Her going leaves empty another of the prime places of citizenship established by the pioneers
of an earlier day in Kimble county.
  Mrs. Corrie Buck was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Mabel Lee, one son, Stroud Ethan,
and her husband, the late W. W. Buck.  Children surviving her are Mrs. R. B. Curry of San Angelo,
Mrs. R. E. Homann of Junction, and Walter Buck of Junction.  Other survivors include five grand-
children:  Reginald B. Curry of Stanford, Conn.; George W. Curry of San Angelo; Nolan Curry of
San Angelo; Miss Martha Curry of Houston and James Carrol Cherry, Jr. of Junction.  Mrs. Willie 
Winston of Groesbeck, Texas a sister of Mrs. Buck, is the only surviving member of the Stroud 
family.  Two sister-in-laws, Mrs. J. R. Stroud of Grosbeck and Mrs. Alice Stroud of Alpine, also 
survive.
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