Jimmie Lou Buescher (nee: Hoy), 80, passed away
peacefully surrounded by family April 19, 2019 at Summerlin Hospital Medical
Center in Las Vegas, NV.
She was born Jan. 3, 1939 to Richard and Kathleen (Stowe)
Hoy in El Paso, TX. She married Charles Louis Buescher on May 29, 1958. In
addition to her husband, she is survived by daughters Amy (the late Joe)
Morales of Prescott Valley, AZ and Kathleen (Paul) Vigil of Santa Fe, NM;
granddaughters Sara (Hector) Gonzalez of Dewey, AZ, Karla (Micah) Johnson of
Lynchburg, VA, Katherine Atkins of Pueblo, CO, and Laura Atkins of Santa Fe; and
great grandchildren Zachariah Atkins, Hanaiyah Herrera,
Hector III and Emily Gonzalez, and Atticus and Ripley Johnson. She also is
survived by brother Dr. Francis (Patricia) Hoy of Holden Center, MA, Aunt
Jimmie Louise Cory of Denver, CO, son-in-law Scott Daravanis of Prescott Valley, and good friend and caregiver Camille Galyk of
Las Vegas.
Mrs. Buescher earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
Education at the University of Texas at El Paso where she was a member of Chi
Omega sorority. She taught elementary, middle school and university students in
Las Cruces, NM for 30 years. She was a past president of the Ladies Auxiliary
at Memorial General Hospital in Las Cruces and a member of the Old Spanish
Trail Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Mesquite
Club.
As a child, she read an entire set of Britannica
Encyclopedia, which explains her love of history and drive to learn the history
and facts of every city and town she and her family visited and resided.
She embodied the same dedication to identifying and
describing Oriental and Native American rugs, Native American pottery and
jewelry, glassware, and her family’s ancestry.
In addition to her classroom instruction, she felt it was
her duty to help students when they were struggling outside the classroom. One
example was when one of her students didn’t have a coat because his parents
couldn’t afford one. Jimmie Lou conspired with her fellow teachers to hold a
drawing for a school-themed jacket that the child amazingly won (!) so the
child and his parents would not be embarrassed by accepting charity.
Known for her “wicked sense of humor,” if you happened to
forget it was April 1st, you might spend a long time looking for the
monkey she said she saw in the yard.
She was not a fan of camping, which tended to include car
troubles, sick kids, sick and lost dogs, floods, bears and other misadventures.
She did, however, enjoy the cruises she and Charles took after they retired.
She enjoyed operas and musical performances on stage, theaters and television.
In her later years she thoroughly enjoyed the numerous Las Vegas casino
buffets, especially the pecan pie.
Jimmie Lou’s love of reading, discovery, appreciation of
antiques and beautiful things, good manners, being kind and courteous to others
and “being a lady” were instilled in her daughters.
The Neptune Society of Las Vegas handled the arrangements
with internment at Restlawn Memorial Park in El Paso.
