Arthur Paul Buzzini

Arthur Paul Buzzini passed away February 12, 2003 in San Antonio, Texas. He was born September 24, 1910 in Manhattan, New York, the son of Walter James and Theresa Roos Buzzini. One of six children, he was the last of his generation. Arthur married Eleanor Cornell Haviland of Purchase, NY in 1939. Together they raised two daughters in San Antonio, TX. She predeceased him in 1982. He graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. While at Cornell he served as coxswain of the Varsity crew and as President of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He was a First Lieutenant in the army reserves. Art's career in the drilling business began when he moved to Texas in 1933. He started as a roughneck and later supervised several rigs in southern Illinois. In 1946 Art and his brother, Walter, formed Buzzini Drilling Company in San Antonio. The company drilled over 500 wells in Wyoming, Colorado and South Texas. Art was responsible not only for supervising the company's day-to-day operations, but also for marketing its services throughout the oil industry. Art invented several devices that made drilling rigs safer and more efficient. The company was sold in 1981. Art was a two- term member of the Terrell Hills City Council, a member and later Chairman of the Terrell Hills Planning and Zoning Commission, a board member of the International Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, a founding member and board member of Oak Hills Country Club, a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and The Argyle. He loved golf, rose gardening, fly-fishing, bread baking, cooking and taking his family and friends to lunch and dinner. He also enjoyed telling his grandchildren about horse drawn delivery wagons and Prohibition in New York and about surviving the Spanish Influenza in 1918. He is survived by two daughters, Beverly B. Pennington and husband Oliver of Houston, TX and Joan B. Hurd and husband J.R. of San Antonio, four grandchildren, Cliff Hurd and wife Vanessa of Cambridge, MA, Gavin Hurd and wife Marisa of Mountain View, CA, Oliver Pennington III and wife Katherine of London, England, and Sarah Tropoli and husband Peter of Houston, TX. A great grandson, Oliver Pennington IV, nieces, nephews and his very good friend, Jaenette Bell, also survive him. The family wishes to thank Rosemary Ramirez and Virginia Arellano for their loving, caring service.