Stanley Eugene Buckley
December 1, 1935 - October 28, 2004

Stanley Buckley Memorial services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, St. Mathias Church, Muscatine. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. #45;- Stanley Eugene Buckley, 68, Tarpon Springs, died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004, at Newport Richey Hospital of leukemia with complications. Mr. Buckley was born Dec. 1, 1935, in Muscatine, the son of George McKinley and Lois Pinckney Buckley. He married Judith Wheeler Aug. 16, 1957. He later married his wife, Barbara. He worked for many years at the Muscatine Journal as a pressman. Most people will remember him as the last director of the Weed Park Zoo. For several years following, he worked for Bosch Pest Control. The Weed Park rose garden and other city gardens still display the beauty of his love for roses. He served many years as a Boy Scout leader in a troop at the Salvation Army. Survivors include four sons, Mark, Michael and wife Sarah and Barton, all of Muscatine, and Brett and wife Teletha of St. James, Mo.; six daughters, Julie Griffith and husband Gary of Vienna, Mo., Jane Martin and husband Timothy, Jill DeVore and husband Tony and Jackie Davis, all of Muscatine, Jessica Brock and husband Raymond of Omaha, Neb., and Ashley Buckley of Tarpon Springs; 22 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three brothers, Charles of Muscatine, Donovan of Blue Grass and Joseph of LaGrange, Wyo.; and four sisters, Ida Ottaviano and husband John of Nacogdoches, Texas, Ruth Robertson and husband Larry of Grinnell, Thelma Whittaker and husband Raymond of Columbus City and Myrna and husband Robert of Aledo, Ill. He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Joan Hernandez and her two daughters, Analucia and Olivia Alberto.

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