Buckalew, Floyd Wesley

Passed: 1950-09-16

Age: 68

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1950-09-22

Information: RAILROAD MAN DIES AT KENNA - Funeral services were held from the home at Kenna on Monday afternoon for Floyd Wesley Buckalew, 68, who died at his home there last Saturday morning following a short illness.  The Rev. William McCoy and Rev. Hobson Fisher were in charge of the service and the burial was in the Sayre family cemetery.  Mr. Buckalew was a retired employee of the New York Central Railroad and was a native of Given where he was born on June 15, 1882, a son of James and Louise Bonnett Buckalew.  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Buckalew; four sons, Marshall, Charleston attorney and business manager and professor of business and law at Morris Harvey College, Robert, Floyd and Harry Fenton of Charleston and Jackie Ray, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Otmer Withrow of Charleston and Inez, at home; a brother, Roy of Dunbar; a sister, Mrs. Effie Sayre of Given; 11 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.