Gwendolyn BUCKNER

BUCKNER, Gwendolyn was born May 8, 1915 in Springfield, Ohio. She was the fourth of six children born to Julius and Ora Ann Schell. The family moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1926, where she met and married Clynell Jackson. The marriage produced a son, Clynell Jackson, Jr., but ended in divorce in 1935. Gwendolyn and James Buckner were married from December 19, 1939 until his death in 1962. James "Skully" Buckner was All-City center on the Wendell Phillips H.S. city champion basketball team of 1929-30. Gwen worked in women's retail for the M.J. Petrie Co. and retired when Petrie relocated from Chicago's Loop to New Jersey. Gwen moved to Los Angeles, California in 1978; residing in the Angelus Plaza seniors complex from 1980 - 2005. In 2005 she moved to the St. John of God Retirement and Care Center, and it was there Gwendolyn passed away April 30, 2008. Gwen was also preceded in death by her parents; brothers, James H. Schell and Wm Douglas Schell, Sr.; sisters, Ida Watson (nee Schell), Helen Tolson (nee Schell), and Georgia Brockman (nee Schell - Hunt).
At the time of her death Gwendolyn was survived by her son Clynell Jackson, Jr. (Grace); grandchildren, Clynell III (Bailey), Gregory (Lenora), Vivien, Wendell, Geoffrey, Elliott (Sophie), and Tarina Murray (Charles); seven great-grandchildren; nieces, Gail Delahousie (nee Hunt), Sandria Robinson (nee Schell), Cynthia Richmond (nee Hunt); nephews, Wm Douglas Schell, Jr., Swain Hunt, Jr. (Mildred), and many cousins and devoted friends. Memorial service in Los Angeles, at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery Chapel, 1831 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, Friday October 22, 2010, at 10:00 A.M.