Charles William Buckner Sr., age 88, went home to be with the Lord on September 15, 2022.

Charles William Buckner was born at his home on October 24, 1933, in Tracy, Tennessee to the late William Taft Buckner and Edith Mae Foster. He departed this life at the age of 88, on September 15, 2022.

Charles grew up on a farm as a child in Decherd, Tennessee. He attended Prairie Chapel Elementary School and later would attend Townsend High School. Charles performed many tasks while on the farm. He would assist his dad with the two mules they had to plow the soil for planting crops. The mules were named Jack and Joe. Some of the crops that was planted were wheat and corn, along with planting and picking of cotton, which at times was an all-day task. He also, helped with the care of the cows, hogs, and chicken that his parents raised. Charles was helpful to his mother and would assist her with her garden. He would often get eggs from the chicken’s coup and give it to his mother for cooking. He was handy with a rifle and loved to hunt rabbits and squirrels. He would hunt rabbits and would bring it home for dinner to his mother. Often you would know that when he saw a rabbit, because he would yell to his sister Pauline to hand him his rifle, and when he saw a rabbit, he was going to get it.

While Charles attended Townsend High School, and would later leave school to find work at Sewanee: The University of the South, as a bus boy. He would work this job until he left Tennessee and came to Cleveland, Ohio in 1953. Charles landed his first job at Manner’s Big Boy as a cook and would work there for a number of years until landing his lifelong job at Reliance Electric. Charles worked several jobs in between layoffs from Reliance Electric. One of the jobs he worked while laid off from Reliance Electric was with Avon, in which he built a lucrative clientele. He would later return to Reliance and remained employed with them for over 40 years until he retired.

Besides working, Charles had a comical side to him and would often enjoy playing the bogey man with his sisters by placing a blanket over his head and watching them squirm. This was also true of him being playful with some of his grandchildren by showing them a pinecone that would appear a little scary to them he loved seeing the look on their faces and would immediately let them know the cone was harmless.

Charles cherished his two uncles, Uncle Charles, who was called “Big Charles” and uncle Dewey. He enjoyed people and was a personable individual. He was a talker and loved being around his family and friends. Charles was an easy going, calm spirited and happy person who often had a smile on his face. He enjoyed going out to eat and interacting with others, this was part of his daily regime until he could no longer sustain his health.

Charles was preceded in death by his mother and father; his brothers, Henry Jack and Norman Lee Buckner, and son Lynn.
He leaves to cherish his memory and mourn his passing his children; Patricia Ann Mattison, Yvonne Buckner, Charles Buckner Jr., Pamela Renee Jones (John), Anthony Cornell Buckner (Charmaine), and Carolyn Denise Hasan (Fareed); four sisters, Pauline Walker, Helen Pou (Carzel), Willie Fay Wilson, Edith Kay Bynum (Ernest), and one brother, Harry Wayne Buckner. Eighteen grandchildren and a host of great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friend.