Obituary - The Evening Star (Washington, DC), June 15, 1947:
Ward M. Buckles Dies At 66; Banker Was Associated With RFC
Ward M. Buckles, 66, banker associated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, died yesterday at Georgetown University Hospital after an illness of several months.
Mr. Buckles had been with the RFC since 1933 and was a loan examiner with the Defense Supplies Corporation at the time of his illness. He also had been director of finance for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration until 1940. His home was at 1365 Kennedy street N.W.
A native of Brown County, III., he had formerly been a national bank examiner in Helena, Mont., Spokane, Wash, and Philadelphia and had been associated with commercial banks in Buffalo, Mont., Kalispell, Mont., Yakima, Wash. and The Dalles, Oreg. He was also the first manager of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane and had once been comptroller of the Farmers' National Grain Corp. of Chicago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret I. Buckles; two sons, Lawrence C. Buckles, a chemical engineer at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and Maj. Galen M. Buckles. United States Army, of Arlington Village. Also surviving are his brother, Dr. Joseph H. Buckles, Thayer, Kans. and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. The place of burial has not been decided
Ward M. Buckles Dies At 66; Banker Was Associated With RFC
Ward M. Buckles, 66, banker associated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, died yesterday at Georgetown University Hospital after an illness of several months.
Mr. Buckles had been with the RFC since 1933 and was a loan examiner with the Defense Supplies Corporation at the time of his illness. He also had been director of finance for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration until 1940. His home was at 1365 Kennedy street N.W.
A native of Brown County, III., he had formerly been a national bank examiner in Helena, Mont., Spokane, Wash, and Philadelphia and had been associated with commercial banks in Buffalo, Mont., Kalispell, Mont., Yakima, Wash. and The Dalles, Oreg. He was also the first manager of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane and had once been comptroller of the Farmers' National Grain Corp. of Chicago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret I. Buckles; two sons, Lawrence C. Buckles, a chemical engineer at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and Maj. Galen M. Buckles. United States Army, of Arlington Village. Also surviving are his brother, Dr. Joseph H. Buckles, Thayer, Kans. and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. The place of burial has not been decided
Obituary - The Evening Star (Washington, DC), June 15, 1947:
Ward M. Buckles Dies At 66; Banker Was Associated With RFC
Ward M. Buckles, 66, banker associated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, died yesterday at Georgetown University Hospital after an illness of several months.
Mr. Buckles had been with the RFC since 1933 and was a loan examiner with the Defense Supplies Corporation at the time of his illness. He also had been director of finance for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration until 1940. His home was at 1365 Kennedy street N.W.
A native of Brown County, III., he had formerly been a national bank examiner in Helena, Mont., Spokane, Wash, and Philadelphia and had been associated with commercial banks in Buffalo, Mont., Kalispell, Mont., Yakima, Wash. and The Dalles, Oreg. He was also the first manager of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane and had once been comptroller of the Farmers' National Grain Corp. of Chicago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret I. Buckles; two sons, Lawrence C. Buckles, a chemical engineer at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and Maj. Galen M. Buckles. United States Army, of Arlington Village. Also surviving are his brother, Dr. Joseph H. Buckles, Thayer, Kans. and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. The place of burial has not been decided
Ward M. Buckles Dies At 66; Banker Was Associated With RFC
Ward M. Buckles, 66, banker associated with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, died yesterday at Georgetown University Hospital after an illness of several months.
Mr. Buckles had been with the RFC since 1933 and was a loan examiner with the Defense Supplies Corporation at the time of his illness. He also had been director of finance for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration until 1940. His home was at 1365 Kennedy street N.W.
A native of Brown County, III., he had formerly been a national bank examiner in Helena, Mont., Spokane, Wash, and Philadelphia and had been associated with commercial banks in Buffalo, Mont., Kalispell, Mont., Yakima, Wash. and The Dalles, Oreg. He was also the first manager of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Spokane and had once been comptroller of the Farmers' National Grain Corp. of Chicago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret I. Buckles; two sons, Lawrence C. Buckles, a chemical engineer at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., and Maj. Galen M. Buckles. United States Army, of Arlington Village. Also surviving are his brother, Dr. Joseph H. Buckles, Thayer, Kans. and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street. The place of burial has not been decided
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