GREENSBORO – Mrs. Ellen Bamford Buck, 99, died Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 at Countryside Manor in Stokesdale, N.C. Mrs. Buck was born June 23, 1906, in Stillwater. She was the second child of Henry Goodine and Lily Jack Miller Goodine. She grew up in Orono, near the University of Maine. She graduated from public schools there. After her marriage in 1929, Sherman R. Bamford, they moved to Augusta and then to Bucksport. After Sherman’s death, she taught at the Perkins Institute for the Blind and in the Northfield/Mount Herman preparatory schools in Massachusetts. In 1988, she married her second husband Laurence Buck who had also grown up in Orono. She lived in Sun City, Fla. for 35 years before moving to Guilford County in 1998. Mrs. Buck held her families together at an early age upon the deaths of her father when she was 14 years old and her mother four years later and again upon the death of Sherman when her son, Dana was 14 years old. These experiences taught her to be self-reliant and caring, qualities that led her throughout her life. She was a superb homemaker and fine handwork craftsman, a teacher of young people, and very active in the Methodist Church, community and civic projects and affairs. Yet her family was always her greatest pride and joy. She was a devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her many stories of her life of 99 years, especially of Maine are a priceless memory to those who knew and loved her. Mrs. Buck is survived by her son, Dana F. Bamford and wife, Ruth, of Greensboro; grandson, Sherman R. Bamford II of Roanoke, Va.; granddaughter, Martha B. Mikkelson and husband, Steve,; great-grandson, Khean E. and Samuel F. Mikkelson, all of Roanoke Va.; stepson, Laurence L. Buck Jr. and wife, Bobby, their children and grandchildren of Panama City, Fla.; many nieces, nephew and cousins. She was preceded in death by her husband, Sherman R. Bamford; their infant daughter, Ruth; sisters, Lillian Russell and Margarite Mitchell; brothers F. Murray Goodine and Allison Goodine; and second husband, Laurence L. Buck. A Service of Remembrance will be held at a later date at First Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in the family cemetery in Orono. Memorials may be made to the special interests of one’s choice.
MRS. ELLEN BAMFORD BUCK
