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Robert Lee Buser

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Robert Lee Buser

Birth
Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA
Death
13 Nov 2018 (aged 90)
Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana, USA
Burial
New Market, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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NOTE: Mr. and Mrs. Buser are buried in Indian Creek Hill cemetery, not the Old Indian Creek cemetery.Son of Lee Roy and Lucile Buser.
Married Margaret Louise Booher August 5, 1951. She survives.
Also surviving are son Joe (Gretchen) Buser; daughter Ann Buser; granddaughters Megan and Emma.
He was preceded in death by cousin Donald (Nancy) Ewbank.

1946 graduate of New Market High School.
1950 graduate of Wabash College (Phi Beta Kappa).
He also received a master's degree at Indiana State University and doctorate at Indiana University.

Served in the United States Air Force as an instructor in weather observation.

He was a teacher in Pendleton and principal in Covington IN and at the Indiana University High School Laboratory School in Bloomington. He retired in 1995 as a professor of education at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale IL, beginning in 1968.
He was also Director of the National Study of School Evaluation (NSSE), authoring the Evaluative Criteria, a publication used by almost all accredited public schools in the United States and United States military bases throughout the world.
In retirement, he became one of Illinois' first school safety consultants focusing on the issues of school shootings and gun violence.

He was named as one of the nation's Top 100 Curriculum Directors and selected as one of five Phi Delta Kappa Senior Leaders in Education educators of the century.

Visitation 2-4pm Tuesday, November 20 at Hunt and Son Funeral Home in Crawfordsville IN.
Private graveside services at Indian Creek Cemetery.
Celebration of life service to be held later at the First United Methodist Church in Carbondale, Illinois.

Memorial donations to South Montgomery High School Dollars for Scholars, ℅ Eric Brewer, or to the First United Methodist Church of Carbondale, IL.
NOTE: Mr. and Mrs. Buser are buried in Indian Creek Hill cemetery, not the Old Indian Creek cemetery.Son of Lee Roy and Lucile Buser.
Married Margaret Louise Booher August 5, 1951. She survives.
Also surviving are son Joe (Gretchen) Buser; daughter Ann Buser; granddaughters Megan and Emma.
He was preceded in death by cousin Donald (Nancy) Ewbank.

1946 graduate of New Market High School.
1950 graduate of Wabash College (Phi Beta Kappa).
He also received a master's degree at Indiana State University and doctorate at Indiana University.

Served in the United States Air Force as an instructor in weather observation.

He was a teacher in Pendleton and principal in Covington IN and at the Indiana University High School Laboratory School in Bloomington. He retired in 1995 as a professor of education at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale IL, beginning in 1968.
He was also Director of the National Study of School Evaluation (NSSE), authoring the Evaluative Criteria, a publication used by almost all accredited public schools in the United States and United States military bases throughout the world.
In retirement, he became one of Illinois' first school safety consultants focusing on the issues of school shootings and gun violence.

He was named as one of the nation's Top 100 Curriculum Directors and selected as one of five Phi Delta Kappa Senior Leaders in Education educators of the century.

Visitation 2-4pm Tuesday, November 20 at Hunt and Son Funeral Home in Crawfordsville IN.
Private graveside services at Indian Creek Cemetery.
Celebration of life service to be held later at the First United Methodist Church in Carbondale, Illinois.

Memorial donations to South Montgomery High School Dollars for Scholars, ℅ Eric Brewer, or to the First United Methodist Church of Carbondale, IL.


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  • Created by: Ree
  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219874146/robert_lee-buser: accessed ), memorial page for Robert Lee Buser (26 Jun 1928–13 Nov 2018), Find a Grave Memorial ID 219874146, citing Indian Creek Hill Cemetery, New Market, Montgomery County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Ree (contributor 47329830).