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STLtoday - ST. LOUIS : Sister Joyce Buckler Longtime educator for the deaf
Sister Joyce Buckler, a longtime educator at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf, died June 19, 2008, at a hospital in Kalispell, Mont., where she had been vacationing. The cause of death has not been determined. She was 76 and lived in Kirkwood.
Sister Buckler's service at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf, now in Chesterfield, spanned six decades. She taught at the institute for 17 years beginning in 1954, served as an administrator for 19 years during the 1970s and 1980s and coordinated alumni relations and served as an interim principal earlier this decade.
While caring for her mother for a few years in Louisville during the early 1980s, Sister Buckler helped found and was executive director of the Option Schools Organization, a consortium of private oral schools for the deaf. She also served as acting director at the Louisville Oral School for the Deaf.
Sister Buckler was born in Loretto, Ky., and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet here in 1950.
She received a bachelor's degree in education from Fontbonne University, a master's degree in audiology from Northwestern University and a doctorate in education from Columbia University. In 1987, Sister Buckler was recognized as a St. Louis Woman of Achievement in the area of special education.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Wednesday and burial was at Nazareth Cemetery.
Among the survivors are two sisters, Sister Mary Rhodes Buckler of Nerinx, Ky., and Nancy Buckler of Chicago.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 63111-2899.
Sister Joyce Buckler, a longtime educator at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf, died June 19, 2008, at a hospital in Kalispell, Mont., where she had been vacationing. The cause of death has not been determined. She was 76 and lived in Kirkwood.
Sister Buckler's service at St. Joseph Institute for the Deaf, now in Chesterfield, spanned six decades. She taught at the institute for 17 years beginning in 1954, served as an administrator for 19 years during the 1970s and 1980s and coordinated alumni relations and served as an interim principal earlier this decade.
While caring for her mother for a few years in Louisville during the early 1980s, Sister Buckler helped found and was executive director of the Option Schools Organization, a consortium of private oral schools for the deaf. She also served as acting director at the Louisville Oral School for the Deaf.
Sister Buckler was born in Loretto, Ky., and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet here in 1950.
She received a bachelor's degree in education from Fontbonne University, a master's degree in audiology from Northwestern University and a doctorate in education from Columbia University. In 1987, Sister Buckler was recognized as a St. Louis Woman of Achievement in the area of special education.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Wednesday and burial was at Nazareth Cemetery.
Among the survivors are two sisters, Sister Mary Rhodes Buckler of Nerinx, Ky., and Nancy Buckler of Chicago.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 6400 Minnesota Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 63111-2899.