Here & There Column 7-19-11

The late "Bucky" Buck with his famous 48-inch Yonex Titanium Plus Driver and his knickers-style pants and long socks.

Remembering The Great "Bucky" Buck

Ellsworth C. "Bucky" Buck will long be remembered as an avid golfer, poet, musician, owner of Bucky's Diner on Liberty's South Main Street and a man who loved and had high praises for God and his Christian faith.
Bucky as he was called by almost everyone passed on to his heavenly home on June 29 at the age of 93.
He was the guest of honor several years at the annual dinner of the Roscoe Twin Village Golf Club and the "main event" as they say at ringside went to honoring "Bucky" Buck.
At that time Bucky was 89 and had gone through a number of medical problems which kept him away from his favorite game of golf..
Although "Bucky" had gone through a quadruple heart by-pass, leg/ knee problems and other medical situations he still loved talking about golf and his famous 48-inch Yonex Titanium Plus driver and his 24-karet golf putter.
He was for many years a regular on the golf course at Roscoe where he subbed in the Monday Men's league and played a weekly match with Bob Williams on Saturday and gained fame throughout Sullivan County when he teamed up with former Sullivan County Supreme Court Judge Robert "Bob" Williams, Marv Newberg and the late Sullivan County Democrat Publisher Emeritus Fred Stabbert Jr. in the annual Bob Williams Invitational Tournament, which was held for many years at the Sullivan County Golf & Country Club in Liberty.
Always known as a "gentleman golfer" "Bucky" gained recognition of the golf course as the best dressed golfer as he sported the Payne Stewart look with knickers-style pants and long socks.
Born in Roscoe, he was well known in the diner business as one of the best short-order cooks around. He owned and operated "Bucky"s Diner" on South Main Street in Liberty from 1944-1950 and worked at the famed Triangle Diner in Liberty and retired as the short-order cook in 1983.
Bucky was an accomplished musician, playing both the clarinet and saxophone and was a well-known author and writer of poems, many of which have been published in the Sullivan County Democrat.
He will always be remembered as a pure gentleman who proclaimed his strong belief in God and his Christian faith.