Obituary of Juanita Buckner

Graveside services for Nita Gill Buckner, 83, Henderson, are scheduled for 1:00 pm, Wednesday, November 15, at Rusk County Memorial Gardens, with the Reverend Devin LaBay officiating under direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. Mrs. Buckner died Sunday, November 12, 2006 in a Tyler hospital. She was born June 29, 1923 in Haynesville, Louisiana to the late William Henry and Lovie Barber Thomas. She moved from Haynesville, Louisiana to Price and graduated from Carlisle High School in 1942. She moved to Mississippi in 1945 and returned to Overton in 1953. She owned and operated Nita's Beauty Lounge in Overton for 26 years, and retired in 1984. She was preceded in death by two husbands, Jim Gill and Leonard Buckner; a granddaughter, Shelly Kay Palmer; a brother, McDee Thomas; a sister-in-law, Bobbie Thomas Strickland. She is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, Ronn Palmer of Tyler, and Tommy and Charlene Palmer, Hood, Virginia; two stepsons and daughters-in-law, Tim and Jesse Gill of Whitehouse, and Bob and Judy Buckner of Plano; a granddaughter, Shawna Lynn VanNoy; a great granddaughter, Brooklyn Kay VanNoy; and two nieces, Lynn Harrison and Gaylon Thomas. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 14, at the funeral home.