Carla Doina Buckingham

Carla Doina Buckingham

1951-12-06 1974-04-12
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A prayer service for Miss Carla Doina Buckingham will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in Chapel of Memories Mortuary.

 

Mass of Christian burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Divine Redeemer Roman Catholic Church.

 

Celebrants will be the Revs, Omer V, Foxhoven, William Volmer and Robert Kinkel.

Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery with Byron Evans, Bob Heyburn, Jeff Dutton, Charles Keagle, Donald Shelafo, and Robert Strader serving as pallbearers.

 

Miss Buckingham, 1619 Glacier Drive, died Friday in an airplane accident near Monument. She was a student at the University of Colorado.

 

She was born Dec. 6, 1951 in Missoula, Mont.

 

She was a graduate of Radford High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, and would have graduated next month with a degree in medical technology from the Denver University Hospital branch in Boulder. She belonged to Divine Redeemer Church.

 

She is survived by her parents, Lt. Col. And Mrs. Jack L. Buckingham of Colorado Springs; three brothers, Collin, Thatcher and Mathow, and two sisters, Jan Marie and Mia Ann, all of this city; her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Dobbin, Terry, Mont., and several aunts and uncles.

Carla and I met as freshmen at the University of Colorado in Boulder. We dated off and on from November, 1970 until she died. We were pretty serious for the first couple of years, but school, distance and the stupidity (mine) of youth interfered, though we did remain friends. She had a great family and I was privileged to be able to know them fairly well, though we didn't stay in contact for very long after. I was honored and grateful that they asked me to be a pallbearer for her. Carla was beautiful, smart, and adventurous. I'm convinced that she would have had a bright, happy future if she'd had the chance. She really loved high school and talked about Radford (though I didn't remember the name) and Hawaii a lot. Those were really great and memorable years for her. I haven't thought about Carla for a long time. For some reason, she came to my mind a week or so ago. It made me miss her all over again, but I do cherish my memories of her.   So, just out of curiosity I "googled" her name and found your reunion website. When I saw that she was on your "lost and found" page and not on the Memorial page, I wanted to honor her by seeing if you would add her to the Memorial page. I hope it will bring back memories of her to the friends she had. Hawaii is one of my favorite places to visit. I understand why Carla loved it so much.   Mahalo and Aloha! Jeff

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