Pansy Josephine Buckman

Aug. 22, 1944  - Nov. 8, 2015

Pansy Josephine Buckman died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, at the New Horizons Care Center in Lovell. She was born to John Charles Buckman and Josephine Rita Spotted Bird on Aug. 22, 1944, in Hays, Mont. She joined eight brothers and sisters: Rose, Richard, Pat, Erma, Sadie, Tom, Josh and Blanche and six step-brothers and sisters: Al, Bill, Charles, Cecilia, Mae and John.Pansy’s father died when she was 5 years of age in 1949. She lived for a year in Hays and then the family moved to Great Falls and then on to Augusta, Winnet, Helena, Havre, Harlem and Chinook. Pansy would just get started in school and they would move. At age 16 in Chinook she refused to go to school.Pansy married Harvey Eustis and had two daughters, Louise in 1965 and Peggy in 1966. Louise died June 1, 1977, from a head injury caused by a horse. Peggy died in 2008 from multiple sclerosis.[caption id="attachment_10558" align="alignright" width="236"] Pansy Josephine Buckman[/caption]Later Pansy took care of her mother, who suffered from diabetes until she died on Feb. 27, 1973, and then she cared for her step-father until he died.Pansy moved to Frannie in 1994 to live with her brother Pat and his wife Ada. Pat was killed Aug. 22, 1995, on her birthday in a car wreck at the Crow Fair. Pansy was instrumental with a lot of help from Art Schatz in getting Pat a headstone due to his service in the Korean War.Pansy moved to Rose City West on June 18, 2000.She enjoyed making greeting cards for the Senior Center and she loved the holidays, especially Christmas and Halloween. She enjoyed the ladies from the Red Hat group and enjoyed making earrings for them. Pansy loved to embroider, and if she made a mistake, she would rip it out. She also loved Skip Bo, hidden word puzzles, coloring velvet pictures and putting together picture puzzles. She loved calendars with lighthouses on them, and lastly, she loved John Wayne. She had a life-sized John Wayne figure, given to her by Shari Loegering, that she had at the foot of her bed at the care center. For those who knew her well, if she was displeased with you, you would get “the look.”Pansy was preceded in death by her parents, daughters and all brothers and sisters except Tom and his wife Cheryl Buckman of Nevada.She is also survived by her adopted family: Wayne and Karen Spragg; Ken, Shana, J.C. and Shallan Bartle and Sam, Ann and Cindy Spragg.Pansy leaves behind special friends Kristi and Tim DeFuentes and family, Dorothy Spragg, Clarence and Emma Davis, Shari Loegering, Linda Martin, Steve Ramsey, Janet Nazer, Karin O’Donnell and Lee and Sunny Bailey of Texas, and many nieces, nephews and a host of friends.Memorial services will be held on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, at 2 p.m. at the Lovell Bible Church.Please, no flowers. Donations may be made to the Lovell Bible Church or the North Big Horn Senior Citizens Center in Lovell.