DORA “JEAN” BUZZARD

LAMAR- A funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Konantz Warden Funeral Home for Dora “Jean” Buzzard, 85, Lamar, who died Tuesday, July 16, 2024.

A visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 2 p.m.

Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to the Iantha Cemetery.

Condolences may be left online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include her sons, Craig Buzzard and wife Kendra and Derek Buzzard and wife Charity; grandchildren, Cody Buzzard and wife Regina, Kyle Buzzard and wife Lyndsey, Clayton Buzzard and wife Marissa, Sam Buzzard and wife Grace, Kaden Buzzard, Brooke Buzzard and Zander Buzzard and great-grandchildren, Gentry, Kennedy, Lara, Harvey and Della.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harvey Buzzard; a son, Terry Buzzard and all of her siblings.

Mrs. Buzzard was born in Barton County to Grace (Purvis) and Walter Ison. She grew up in Barton County and was a 1957 graduate of Liberal High School, where she was an active member of the band. At 15 she met the love of her life, Harvey Buzzard. Her best friend was dating his brother and talked her into a double date. They married October 6, 1957. Over the years she worked in several places. She worked in the print shop with her husband, babysat and worked many years, until retirement, at O’Sullivan Industries.

She was an avid gardener who enjoyed working in her yard. She strived for and was awarded Yard of Month several times. She enjoyed traveling, visiting Hawaii and the US from coast to coast, finding local treasures like the Bridges of Madison County and the tulip fields in Pella, Iowa. She loved her family and the time that she got to spend with them and she loved “that stupid cat”.