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Right off the top, calling him Buck is just a placeholder for the brother, boy and man, who I knew, since I was born, as Jimmy, then later Jim (although I was always thinking Jimmy! in my head and heart); for a while he went by Shep (at least that's how he would sign some of his art work but I’m talking in the 1970s). So I feel I know his Buck phase the least.
Earliest memory of him? I’m not completely sure, but there are a jumble that are formative. I'm his youngest sister, and he was 9 when he and Shawn came to live with our family (and I was brand new born, so there are all those early childhood memories):
• Being Robin to his Batman in a car he created, I think in my big-kid crib, where he made a steering wheel from construction paper, wore (probably) my mom’s black velvet cape, and created us both face masks so we looked like the characters in the TV show.
• Being wolves in a complex series of cave forts he made under all our beds ending in the closet
• Being astronauts in a rocket ship he constructed (I recall tinfoil over cardboard), going into space.
• Sitting with him while he made plasticine hot-rod cars, put together with toothpicks; and then used a model car tire to create skid marks on the back of an old closet door. Vroom-vroom.
• Watching him make a tiny guillotine with toothpicks and a razor blade and chop off the heads of plasticine people (although I don’t remember that it was gorey or violent, just part of a story)
• Sitting inside a massive snow fort that he created with pillars to hold it up
• Playing with him in a fort we started to make in the woods between two massive logs
• Jumping and swinging on bent-over alder trees (loved that!)
• He and our sister Shawn, encouraging me to step across the gap to get up into the tree fort he built (but being very afraid -- but I did it)
• The two of them encouraging me to make a prank call to a neighbour (with the idea that a neighbour boy my age would answer) and I just had to say “I love you” and hang up and they would give me a piece of Double Bubble gum. (The mother answered and I said the words and hung up).
• Sitting for a long long time on a stepladder while he made an oil painting of me
• Playing pots and pans with wooden spoons as the “drummer” while he played his guitar
• Him dressing me up as a hippy with his red groovy 60s sunglasses and putting a star sticker on my cheek
• Playing doctor where he treated me (the patient) with coloured water potions in glass bottles
• Putting my head in his real life guillotine that he built with two-by-fours (no blade) and posing for a photograph
• Being tied to the stake in our enactment of Joan of Arc or witch burning or something
• Baking cookies and him telling me about how the flour was snow
• Being his assistant when he chopped wood and I had to “put up my arms like a logging truck” and he’d load me up
• Hiking in the woods and near the lake with him and him giving me a “moon rock” he found on the beach
• Riding in the basket on the front of his bike
• One less-than-happy time where I had to hang like a bat in the closet as part of a hide-and-seek game and then no one came to get me and I felt trapped
Metamorphoses:
• The day he left home in anger as a teen and he kicked out and hit my lunch box so that the thermos broke
• Missing him but not knowing how to express that
• When he came home from his travels he wore a headband and long hair and had a girlfriend with him. He would rub my head and say “hey Bee-O!” (my nickname) And he left behind his Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band Beatles album which I listened to and studied closely afterwards
• One time when I was in grade 4 he came home for a visit and he sketched me, signing it as Shep. I was really flattered by the drawing but I think he made me look more like one of his girlfriends than me (but I hoped I looked that cute!)
• I remember our Dad driving to Abbotsford after my guitar practice in Mission and we went to visit him where he was living with a bunch of people in a big old house and he came to the door with his long hair and shades and he seemed so cool
• In grade 8 I visited him and his girlfriend and tried pot for the first time. I remember him talking about how he felt he was going through a metamorphosis as he approached 25.
• In grade 9, he was living near my junior high and I was excited that I could hang out
• He drove a cool 50s Chevy pickup and sometimes when I was out with friends hitchhiking to parties he would pick us up. Other times he would be cruising in a mustang with his girlfriend-then-wife Holly and sometimes I’d ride with them
• Their wedding was fun
I would stay with them for the weekend and could party there or go out and it was all cool. We would stay up late and watch Saturday Night Live and the Midnight Special
• When my nephew was born I would go and babysit and get to play all the new records and find out about the latest music before other kids
And there are all the memories I have of just thinking of him when he wasn’t there and sometimes he even showed up:
• When I was about 20 and had a summer job at the Maple Ridge Museum, and one day he showed up to the office in the back of the library to check it out and say hi. It made me feel special and connected
• Getting his postcard that he sent me of a flowered mountainside in the Rockies, and he wrote something like: “if’n I could I’d build my house here”
• When I worked in a hospital that had phone books from around the province (in the 80s), I tried to find his name in them (pre-internet, it was really hard to find someone)
• Hearing the kid’s song by the Great Lake Swimmers, “See you on the moon” about being an astronaut made me nostalgic for our astronaut playing days
• He was the inspiration for a creative non-fiction piece I wrote at university in the early 90s
• He was the inspiration for the short story I wrote about flying (he was my guardian on the wing of the plane and I made up a plot about a brother who was a pilot but then had a drinking problem and died).
I know that there is so much about Buck/Jimmy/Jim/Shep and I only have the perspectives of the much younger little sister. I can't and won't forget how special he was. He left his indelible magic mark on me and I promise to try to keep it alive.
Photos below: Buck with Holly heading out in the cold with little (very young) Kigar at Mom/Grandma's house (Dana in picture too), early 80s; Buck with Colin at table, grinning, at Mom's house, probably late 70s/early 80s. Buck sitting on a rock near Marysville in the Kootenays when I visited him in the late 1980s. A drawing of me (making my nose look smaller than it was) in about 71-72. Buck with Kigar at mom's place. Buck on top of Golden Ears (he climbed it with Colin) in the summer of 1981. Buck holding baby Bayley in Marysville. His sketch of a camaro hot rod (1960s?). His oil painting of me, late 1960s. Sorry I couldn't find any childhood era photos!
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Friday, March 17, 2023
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This was taken July 2007....I wonder what he was thinking? Who's cooking over the fire tonight...me or Sis?
Or, hmmm....should I grab my fishing rod?
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Friday, March 17, 2023
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Buck and my dog Lakota having a swim in Stoney Lake where we camped in the summer of 2006.
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Friday, March 17, 2023
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On July 1, 2007 Buck and I went camping at Stoney Lake just outside Kimberley and had a fantastic weekend swimming, sun bathing and listening to the loons.
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Friday, March 17, 2023
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Buck's bike "Talledega" drying his clothes after a swim in Stone Lake in 2007.
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shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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Colin (Buck's younger brother) make a trip to visit us in 2004 at Wycliffe and fortunately he and Buck were able to spend some quality time together exploring numerous Forestry Service roads.
Then in the evening Buck pulled out his telescope and the both scoped the evenings stars :)
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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A day when Buck took me 4x4ing up Ram Creek to Whiteswan Lake with my dog Lakota. Would have been 2004 or 2005.
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
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A picture of Buck in the backyard in Stave Falls, BC where we grew up.
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Baylee Howard uploaded photo(s)
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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This is what I do for work I was very proud and I'm holding a Northen Pike biggest on I've caught off shore amd wish dad was there to help. I think this would've blew his mind wish he could've came up to the Yukon
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Baylee Howard uploaded photo(s)
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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This is my mom dad and me I think I was not even a month old
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Baylee Howard posted a condolence
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
I really wish I had gotten to know him I remember visiting him a few times but I was really young. I also had met him one other time when I was 16. I think he would've loved it up here too. Dad I didn't know much about you, but I hope your next life will be the best for you. Rest in Peace Dad and know you always have a piece of my heart always. Love you Baylee
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Kigar Buss uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 13, 2023
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Dad and myself ❤️
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Kigar Buss uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 13, 2023
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Wild Buss , myself , David Buss , Jessica Smith and Shawn Buss at Grandma Rosemary Buss’s celebration of life . If not for my dad’s health he would have attended as well ❤️
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Kigar Buss uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 13, 2023
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My son (Bucks grandson) Wild Buss and myself during Wilds Graduation
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Kigar Buss uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 13, 2023
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Dad and myself when my Grandpa Maynard drove me up to Cranbrook to see him in the summer of 1991 ( when I first heard of his new name … Buck )
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Kigar Buss uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 13, 2023
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Dad , my mom Holly and I , 1983-84 I believe Centennial Park Mission BC
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Kigar Buss uploaded photo(s)
Monday, March 13, 2023
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Dad in Jasper 1977-78
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Ben Meunier posted a condolence
Monday, March 13, 2023
Hello Shawn,
I am very sorry to hear about the passing of your brother. Buck was such a nice guy. I will keep fond memories of my conversations with him each time I would drop off the boat at your place. He was always interested in the work we were doing and would share stories from when he used to work in the bush. Misun and I send you big hugs and are thinking of you in this difficult time.
Take care,
Ben
Ben Meunier
Fisheries Biologist
Ktunaxa Nation Council
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THOMAS ARMSTRONG posted a condolence
Monday, March 13, 2023
MET BUCK FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN I TRAVELLED DOWN FROM WILLIAMS LAKE TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH HIS SISTER, SHAWN, THAT I MET AND TOOK OUT 45 YEARS AGO.
WE HIT IT OFF PRETTY WELL. WE TALKED ABOUT MUSIC , CARS, WOMEN (OVER A FEW COLD ONES) I THOUGHT HE WAS A PRETTY GOOD DUDE.
WE EVEN MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO SEE A CONCERT IN TOWN, BUT HE GOT SICK AND COULDNT GO. KEPT THE TICKET AND MADE SURE HE GOT A TEE SHIRT FROM THAT CONCERT. LIKE I ALWAYS DID WHEN I WENT TO ONE. SAID" WE'LL TRY TO DO IT AGAIN, AND DID. GOT FRONT ROW TICKETS FOR BURTON CUMMINGS .THINK HE ENJOYED IT. LOVED MUSIC.
SAID HE WORKED AS A ROADIE FOR A COUPLE OF BANDS AND ALSO PLAYED GUITAR. WAS SMART IN HIS EARLY DAYS,AND VERY ARTISTIC.
OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS IT WAS BACK TO NASCAR. THAT WAS THE THING HE REALLY LOVED. WORE HIS NASCAR HOODIE ON RACEDAYS AND HAD DALE EARNHART'S PLAQUE NEXT TO HIS BED. HIS ALL TIME FAVORITE WAS DALE EARNHART" THE INTIMIDATOR" WE BOTH AGREED HE WAS OUR ALL TIME FAVORITE. ( AND DROVE A CHEVY! ) THE GUYS WE FOLLOWED AND LOVED WERE JIMMIE JOHNSON, JEFF GORDON, MARTIN TRUEX JR, AND A FEW UP AND COMERS. BUT ONE DRIVER WE BOTH HATED WITH A PASSION WAS " THE AROGANT LITTLE PRICK , JOEY LAGONNO". DAYTONA WAS THE BEST RACE AS FAR AS HE WAS CONCERNED. WE WATCHED SOME RACES TOGETHER, AND WHEN DIDNT , I MADE SURE HE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE ON AND WHAT CHANNEL.
LATER ON THEY WERE RECORDED FOR HIM TO WATCH AT HIS LESIURE . WE BOTH LOVED ROCK , THE GOOD STUFF, THE GREAT BANDS. TOP OF LIST FOR HIM WAS THE ROLLING STONES. SAID I SAW THEM AT THE COAST IN THE 70'S. CALLED ME A "LUCKY SON OF A BI##H. TOLD HIM ALL THE GREAT ONES I SAW AND JUST SMILED. BOTH LIKED ZZ TOP. HE WENT WITH HIS SISTER SHAWN, TO SEE ZZ TOP IN CRANBROOK AND HAD A BLAST. GOT PICS ON SHOP WALL TO CONFIRM THE SPECIAL EVENT. BUT MUSIC WAS JUST ANOTHER THING WE HAD IN COMMON.
WE LOVED OUR CARS. CLASSIC. MUSCLE. HOT RODS. THE BEST. WE AGREED THAT THE TIME WE GREW UP IN WAS THE BEST. AS THEY SAY WE HAD THE BEST CARS, BEST CLOTHES, BEST MUSIC . AND THE BEST . THAT'S WHEN THE STORIES CAME OUT. WE SWAPPED SOME GOOD ONES. WE BOTH HAD RACED THE 1/4 MILE AND BUILT SOME COOL CARS. WE WERE BOTH CHEVY DIE HARDS.
AS TIME ROLLED ON, MEMORIES FADED, BUT I KEPT AT IT WITH HIM. SOMETIMES JUST TALKING ABIUT STUPID SHIT THAT NO ONES CARES ABOUT , BUT IT MADE HIM THINK AND SMILE . BROUGHT SOME GOOD TIMES BACK. AND WE WERE LUCKY NO CELL PHONES BACK THEM. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN SO MUCH SHIT, MORE THAN WE ALREADY HAD GOT INTO. HAHA WAS NICE TO SEE HIM SMILE.
HE WAS A VERY PROUD MAN. STRONG IN HIS COVICTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE, THE WIDELIFE , THE ENVIROMENT. MEANT ALOT TO HIM. PROUD . PROUD TO THE END. WANTED TO GO ON HIS OWN TERMS. AND DID WITH ALL HIS FAMILY WITH HIM AND ME AS HIS GOOD FRIEND, WE HAD A LOTS OF STUFF IN COMMON. I WILL SAY I LOVED HIM LIKE A BOTHER. DONT NEED TO BE BLOOD TO FEEL IT, ITS JUST THERE.
HOPE WHEN HE GETS UP THERE, HE GETS TO MEET HIS HERO , MR INTIMIDATOR, JAM WITH SOME GOOD MUSICIANS, RACE ON DAYS THAT ARE ALWAYS SUNNY AND WARM AND SIT AROUND AND ENJOY THE PEOPLE YOU MEET THERE AND HAVE SOME COLD ONES TOGETHER. SONG TITLE " PEACEFUL EASY FEELING" AND ENJOY "LIVING IN THE FREE WORLD" AND CHASING "WILD HORSES" LOVE YOU BRO. R I P SIR JAMES , BUT WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS BUCK!!
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Sunday, March 12, 2023
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MET BUCK FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN I TRAVELLED DOWN FROM WILLIAMS LAKE TO SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH HIS SISTER, SHAWN, THAT I MET AND TOOK OUT 45 YEARS AGO. WE HIT IT OFF PRETTY WELL. WE TALKED ABOUT MUSIC , CARS, WOMEN (OVER A FEW COLD ONES) I THOUGHT HE WAS A PRETTY GOOD DUDE. WE EVEN MADE ARRANGEMENTS TO GO SEE A CONCERT IN TOWN, BUT HE GOT SICK AND COULDNT GO. KEPT THE TICKET AND MADE SURE HE GOT A TEE SHIRT FROM THAT CONCERT. LIKE I ALWAYS DID WHEN I WENT TO ONE. SAID" WE'LL TRY DO IT AGAIN, AND DID. GOT FRONT ROW TICKETS FOR BURTON CUMMINGS .THINK HE ENJOYED IT. TALKED MUSIC. SAID HE WORKED AS A ROADIE FOR A COUPLE OF BAND AND ALSO PLAYED GUITAR. WAS SMART IN HIS EARLY DAYS,AND VERY ARTISTIC. OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS IT WAS BACK TO NASCAR. THAT WAS THE THING HE REALLY LOVED. WORE HIS NASCAR HOODIE ON RACEDAYS AND HAD DALE EARNHART'S PLAQUE NEXT TO HIS BED. HIS ALL TIME FAVORITE WAS DALE EARNHART" THE INTIMINATOR" WE BOTH AGREED HE WAS OUR ALL TIME FAVORITE. ( AND DROVE A CHEVY! ) THE GUYS WE FOLLOWED AND LOVED WERE JIMMIE JOHNSON, JEFF GORDON, MARTIN TRUEX JR, AND A FEW UP AND COMERS. BUT ONE DRIVER WE BOTH HATED WITH A PASSION WAS " THE AROGANT LITTLE PRICK , JOEY LAGONNO". DAYTONA WAS THE BEST RACE AS FAR AS HE WAS CONCERNED. WATCHED SOME RACES TOGETHER, AND WHEN DIDNT , I MADE SURE HE KNEW WHEN THEY WERE ON AND WHAT CHANNEL. LATER ON THEY WERE RECORDED FOR HIM TO WATCH AT HIS LESIURE . WE BOTH LOVED ROCK , THE GOOD STUFF, THE GREAT BANDS. TOP OF LIST FOR HIM WAS THE ROLLING STONES. SAID I SAW THEM AT THE COAST IN THE 70'S. CALLED ME A "LUCKY SON OF A BI##H. TOLD HIM ALL THE GREAT ONES I SAW AND JUST SMILED. BOTH LIKED ZZ TOP. HE WENT WITH HIS SISTER SHAWN, HAD A BLAST. GOT PICS ON SHOP WALL TO CONFIRM THE SPECIAL EVENT. BUT MUSIC WAS JUST ANOTHER THING WE HAD IN COMMON. WE LOVED OUR CARS. CLASSIC. MUSCLE. HOT RODS. THE BEST. WE AGREED THAT THE TIME WE GREW UP IN WAS THE BEST. AS THEY SAY WE HAD THE BEST CARS, BEST CLOTHES, BEST MUSIC . AND THE BEST . THAT WHEN THE STORIES CAME OUT. WE SWAPPED SOME GOOD ONES. WE BOTH HAD RACED THE 1/4 MILE AND BUILT SOME COOL CARS. WE WERE BOTH CHEVY DIE HARDS. AS TIME ROLLED ON, MEMORIES FADED, BUT I KEPT AT IT WITH HIM. SOMETIMES JUST TALKING ABIUT STUPID SHIT THAT NO ONES CARES ABOUT , BUT IT MADE HIM THINK AND SMILE . BROUGHT SOME GOOD TIMES BACK. AND WE WERE LUCKY NO CELL PHONES BACK THEM. WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN SO MUCH SHIT, MORE THAN WE ALREADY HAD GOT INTO. HAHA WAS NICE TO SEE HIM SMILE. HE WAS A VERY PROUD MAN. STRONG IN HIS COVICTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE, THE WIDELIFE , THE ENVIROMENT. MEANT ALOT TO HIM. PROUD . PROUD TO THE END. WANTED TO GO ON HIS OWN TERMS. AND DID WITH ALL HIS FAMILY WITH HIM AND ME AS HIS GOOD FRIEND, WE HAD A LOTS OF STUFF IN COMMON. I WILL SAY I LOVED HIM LIKE A BOTHER. DONT NEED TO BE BLOOD TO FEEL IT, ITS JUST THERE.HOPR WHE HE GETS UP THERE, HE GETS TO MEET HIS HERO , MR INTIMINATOR, JAM WITHS SOME GOOD MUSICIANS, RACE ON DAYS THAT ARE ALWAYS SUNNY AND WARM AND SIT AROUND AND ENJOY THE PEOPLE YOU MEET THERE AND HAVE SOME COLD ONES TOGETHER. SONG TITLE " PEACEFUL EASY FEELING" AND ENJOY "LIVING IN THE FREE WORLD" AND CHASING "WILD HORSES" LOVE YOU BRO. R I P SIR JAMES , BUT WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS BUCK11
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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A beautiful card I received from Buck in the Summer of 1989 shortly after the birth of his daughter Baylee Howard.
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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A letter from April 1990
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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Just a few pics over the years. Miss you so much Bro!
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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A letter I received from Buck in November 1987 and wish to share with my family. The photos were inclosed with his letter.
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Shawn Buss uploaded photo(s)
Saturday, March 11, 2023
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Buck and I cutting down the Christmas tree up Perry Creek
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Jessica Smith uploaded photo(s)
Friday, March 10, 2023
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Was so glad I was able to have a visit with uncle Buck this past summer and spend some time with him. He will be missed.
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Kelly Howard posted a condolence
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Im truly sorry for the loss of Jim. Jim was a funny man, hard worker, and kind soul. Eventually we had a baby girl together her name is Baylee Howard. I really wish Jim could of met his daughter he would of been very proud of her, and she loves the outdoors and runs heavy machinery in Yukon. I truly loved Jim and i hope his next life is the best for him. R.I.P Jim.
Love Kelly H.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
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