"I hear his heart flutter every time your mother speaks to him", was the report from the Hospice Nurse, just before he passed on February 22, 2016. Our 91-year old mother, Mary Midkiff Bueche, married Clifford J. Bueche, Sr., in 1944 at Camp Normoyle, before he was sent to France during WWII. Their love letters, between San Antonio and that war-torn far-away place, revealed the depth of their devotion to each other. It continued through the day of his passing as his bride said to him, "I loved you from the first moment I saw you", while his heart spoke for him.
Dad wanted to be a professional baseball player. He had the talent and skills, and planned to do that after the War. But as a patriot, he instead, responded when recalled, eventually serving twenty years until his retirement in 1967 as a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force. His college degree from UT Austin was in Business with a minor in Engineering. Engineering became a major theme is all his work both in the Air Force and in business after his retirement.
He helped set up the WWII airfield, Orly Air Base. Later, as Commander of Basic Training at Lackland, he built new barracks and many other facilities. He was a highly decorated senior officer, and was given an Air Force Commendation Award for applying his special skills.
After service in the Air Force, he applied his innovative engineering skills to his own businesses. He established Olympic Trophy Center, serving school districts throughout south Texas and many other groups. That was followed by wholesale businesses, Olympic Medal Supply and then Awardsmith, which served trophy retailers in a seven-State area. He earned 13 patents for small machines and equipment that small trophy retail shops could purchase, to help them become more profitable: a punch for metal discs, a shear with a special hold-down device so sheet metal would be cut with absolutely square corners, and a roller with various attachments to make metal trophy columns.
An adventurer, he travelled with his family to places around the globe where tourists did not normally go. His bride and his four children were his crew, companions, and a self-reliant unit. We, his children learned a lot from our Dad and the love of his life: Clifford Bueche, Jr. (wife Janece), Betty Bueche, Michael Bueche, Sr (wife Emily), and Ken Bueche, Sr. (wife Denise). In the 1950's we spent days on the Texas intercoastal canal and Big Bend without seeing another human. We travelled through Europe, Mexico and other countries camping in the most unlikely places. We all became skilled at survival, and occasionally had to dig out his camper when we got stuck in sandy beaches, and muddy "roads" to remote fishing villages.
His four children gifted he and his bride with thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren, with more on the way.
San Antonio Express-News, February 29, 2016
Dad wanted to be a professional baseball player. He had the talent and skills, and planned to do that after the War. But as a patriot, he instead, responded when recalled, eventually serving twenty years until his retirement in 1967 as a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force. His college degree from UT Austin was in Business with a minor in Engineering. Engineering became a major theme is all his work both in the Air Force and in business after his retirement.
He helped set up the WWII airfield, Orly Air Base. Later, as Commander of Basic Training at Lackland, he built new barracks and many other facilities. He was a highly decorated senior officer, and was given an Air Force Commendation Award for applying his special skills.
After service in the Air Force, he applied his innovative engineering skills to his own businesses. He established Olympic Trophy Center, serving school districts throughout south Texas and many other groups. That was followed by wholesale businesses, Olympic Medal Supply and then Awardsmith, which served trophy retailers in a seven-State area. He earned 13 patents for small machines and equipment that small trophy retail shops could purchase, to help them become more profitable: a punch for metal discs, a shear with a special hold-down device so sheet metal would be cut with absolutely square corners, and a roller with various attachments to make metal trophy columns.
An adventurer, he travelled with his family to places around the globe where tourists did not normally go. His bride and his four children were his crew, companions, and a self-reliant unit. We, his children learned a lot from our Dad and the love of his life: Clifford Bueche, Jr. (wife Janece), Betty Bueche, Michael Bueche, Sr (wife Emily), and Ken Bueche, Sr. (wife Denise). In the 1950's we spent days on the Texas intercoastal canal and Big Bend without seeing another human. We travelled through Europe, Mexico and other countries camping in the most unlikely places. We all became skilled at survival, and occasionally had to dig out his camper when we got stuck in sandy beaches, and muddy "roads" to remote fishing villages.
His four children gifted he and his bride with thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren, with more on the way.
San Antonio Express-News, February 29, 2016
"I hear his heart flutter every time your mother speaks to him", was the report from the Hospice Nurse, just before he passed on February 22, 2016. Our 91-year old mother, Mary Midkiff Bueche, married Clifford J. Bueche, Sr., in 1944 at Camp Normoyle, before he was sent to France during WWII. Their love letters, between San Antonio and that war-torn far-away place, revealed the depth of their devotion to each other. It continued through the day of his passing as his bride said to him, "I loved you from the first moment I saw you", while his heart spoke for him.
Dad wanted to be a professional baseball player. He had the talent and skills, and planned to do that after the War. But as a patriot, he instead, responded when recalled, eventually serving twenty years until his retirement in 1967 as a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force. His college degree from UT Austin was in Business with a minor in Engineering. Engineering became a major theme is all his work both in the Air Force and in business after his retirement.
He helped set up the WWII airfield, Orly Air Base. Later, as Commander of Basic Training at Lackland, he built new barracks and many other facilities. He was a highly decorated senior officer, and was given an Air Force Commendation Award for applying his special skills.
After service in the Air Force, he applied his innovative engineering skills to his own businesses. He established Olympic Trophy Center, serving school districts throughout south Texas and many other groups. That was followed by wholesale businesses, Olympic Medal Supply and then Awardsmith, which served trophy retailers in a seven-State area. He earned 13 patents for small machines and equipment that small trophy retail shops could purchase, to help them become more profitable: a punch for metal discs, a shear with a special hold-down device so sheet metal would be cut with absolutely square corners, and a roller with various attachments to make metal trophy columns.
An adventurer, he travelled with his family to places around the globe where tourists did not normally go. His bride and his four children were his crew, companions, and a self-reliant unit. We, his children learned a lot from our Dad and the love of his life: Clifford Bueche, Jr. (wife Janece), Betty Bueche, Michael Bueche, Sr (wife Emily), and Ken Bueche, Sr. (wife Denise). In the 1950's we spent days on the Texas intercoastal canal and Big Bend without seeing another human. We travelled through Europe, Mexico and other countries camping in the most unlikely places. We all became skilled at survival, and occasionally had to dig out his camper when we got stuck in sandy beaches, and muddy "roads" to remote fishing villages.
His four children gifted he and his bride with thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren, with more on the way.
San Antonio Express-News, February 29, 2016
Dad wanted to be a professional baseball player. He had the talent and skills, and planned to do that after the War. But as a patriot, he instead, responded when recalled, eventually serving twenty years until his retirement in 1967 as a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force. His college degree from UT Austin was in Business with a minor in Engineering. Engineering became a major theme is all his work both in the Air Force and in business after his retirement.
He helped set up the WWII airfield, Orly Air Base. Later, as Commander of Basic Training at Lackland, he built new barracks and many other facilities. He was a highly decorated senior officer, and was given an Air Force Commendation Award for applying his special skills.
After service in the Air Force, he applied his innovative engineering skills to his own businesses. He established Olympic Trophy Center, serving school districts throughout south Texas and many other groups. That was followed by wholesale businesses, Olympic Medal Supply and then Awardsmith, which served trophy retailers in a seven-State area. He earned 13 patents for small machines and equipment that small trophy retail shops could purchase, to help them become more profitable: a punch for metal discs, a shear with a special hold-down device so sheet metal would be cut with absolutely square corners, and a roller with various attachments to make metal trophy columns.
An adventurer, he travelled with his family to places around the globe where tourists did not normally go. His bride and his four children were his crew, companions, and a self-reliant unit. We, his children learned a lot from our Dad and the love of his life: Clifford Bueche, Jr. (wife Janece), Betty Bueche, Michael Bueche, Sr (wife Emily), and Ken Bueche, Sr. (wife Denise). In the 1950's we spent days on the Texas intercoastal canal and Big Bend without seeing another human. We travelled through Europe, Mexico and other countries camping in the most unlikely places. We all became skilled at survival, and occasionally had to dig out his camper when we got stuck in sandy beaches, and muddy "roads" to remote fishing villages.
His four children gifted he and his bride with thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-three great grandchildren, with more on the way.
San Antonio Express-News, February 29, 2016
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