Name: Buckles, Kenneth Carlton
Burial Date: 1949, 03/08
Age at Death: 26
Plot Location: 272 E
Notes: First husband of Grace Amy(Ritter)Key
Died 1944, 03/03 Pfc 339 Inf Regt.
War: WW2 
Obituary from the Sterling (KS) Bulletin:
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 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, near Sylvia, who helped raise Mr. Buckles after his mother died six months after birth.
| Birth: | Apr. 1, 1918 Hutchinson Reno County Kansas, USA |
| Death: | Mar. 3, 1944, At Sea |
obituary from the Sterling (KS) Bulletin: 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 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, near Sylvia, who helped raise Mr. Buckles after his mother died six months after birth. Family links: Spouse: Sibling: *Calculated relationship |
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| Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA |
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| Created by: Chris Record added: Oct 17, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 78635116 |
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