LeRoy Buechler

LeRoy passed away on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was born in Bowdle, SD, on Sept. 1, 1926.

He married Esther Roesch from Roscoe in 1949. She was his nurse as he recuperated from nearly losing his hand in a corn-picker accident. They worked the family farm in Bowdle until two years of drought and cattle disease forced an auction of the farm. They moved to Aberdeen, SD, where Esther resumed her nursing career and Leroy pursued a teaching degree at Northern State College. After graduation he moved and taught in Minnesota and South Dakota.

LeRoy and Esther retired in 1990 to Aberdeen where he worked for Super 8 hotel reservations. A few years after Esther died in 2006, LeRoy moved to Florida where his oldest son Jerry resided. Needing more care as he aged, his sons Jerry and Danny moved him to an assistant living facility in Benson, Minnesota, and then to the St. Anthony Park Nursing Home in St. Paul, just a short walk from Danny's family.

LeRoy enjoyed speaking German, also singing and performing with an Aberdeen men's group, Esther's kuchens, and talking to people. Many of you may have had conversations with him.

He is survived by his sister Irene Rader in California, son Jerry Buechler in North Carolina, son Danny Buechler in St. Paul, brother-in-law Melvin Roesch in Roscoe, South Dakota, four grandchildren - Dane, Adam, Matthew and Anna, and 1 great- granddaughter, Kokoro Eto, in Tokyo.