Born Nov. 24, 1937
Louisville, Kentucky
Died June 12, 2024
South Hero, Vermont
Details of services
At Taylor’s request there will be no visitation, funeral or memorial. Donations in memory may be made to South Hero Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments, 131 Community Lane, South Hero, 05486, and the McClure Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, 05446.
H. Taylor Buckner passed away quietly at home with the use of MAID, age 86.
He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the elder of 2 sons to Hubbard George Buckner and Kate Tebbs (Helm) Buckner. His early years were spent in schools in Louisville.
After a very formative junior year at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Taylor graduated with a BS from University of Louisville in 1959. During a brief time at Indiana University he met and married Judith Friedl and had a son, James Taylor Buckner. They
lived in San Francisco and Oakland, CA where Taylor earned his MA in 1964 and PhD in Sociology in 1967, both from the University of California at Berkeley. While there he wrote articles on police culture, rumor transmission, the transvestic career path, and studied a flying saucer cult some of whose members thought he was a Martian (he was 6’ 5”and “everyone knows Martians are tall”). Later he authored a book entitled “Deviance, Reality and Change”. For more details see: http://tbuckner.com/
After teaching at San Francisco State College for a year they moved to Montreal, Canada where Taylor spent the next 30 years as a professor at Concordia University.
Several sabbatical leaves afforded him the chance to travel the world in 1973-4, where he read the 6 o’clock news on ACTV in Osaka, Japan, improved his Spanish in Argentina, and then begin his MBA during 1979-80. He graduated with an MBA from Hautes Etudes Commerciales, the business school of the Universite de Montreal in 1984.
While living in Montreal Taylor founded a neighborhood organization – Shaughnessy Village Association – which greatly enhanced the ambience of a small residential downtown area of the city. The association, still very active today, was instrumental in preserving the historic Victorian and Edwardian architecture of the old homes in the area and preventing their replacement with high rise buildings.
Taylor’s first marriage ended in divorce in 1969. In 1972 he met Jennifer Grove and they were married in 1975.
He retired in 1996 and in 1998 he and Jennifer moved to South Hero, Vermont where Taylor began a retail shotgun business, Heros’ Arms.
He was pre-deceased by his parents, and is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jennifer Grove Buckner of South Hero, his son James Taylor Buckner of Sherman Oaks, CA and his brother John A. Buckner of Louisville, KY.
At Taylor’s request there will be no visitation, funeral or memorial. Donations in memory may be made to South Hero Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments, 131 Community Lane, South Hero, 05486, and the McClure Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, 05446.
Read the story on VTDigger here: Hubbard Taylor Buckner.