Louis Dunbar Buckles

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. John 14: 1-3.

Louis Dunbar Buckles was born on March 8, 1929, to the late Willie Estelle and John Buckles. Louis accepted Christ and was baptized as a young lad; Reverend Doctor Peter E. Frisby served as the shepherd of the flock at Mercy Seat Missionary Baptist Church. He was formally educated in a one room school that was inclusive of multiple grades at Churchill, Mississippi, in Jefferson County.

When Louis moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, he joined Bethel Baptist Church where Reverend James Gilmore served as the spiritual overseer. He continued to serve at the same church under the current leadership of Reverend Charles Marshall.

His parents taught him the importance and significance of hard work before he reached adolescence. As a result of their influence, he began and retained employment with Reynolds Electrical Engineering Company for thirty years.

Seven siblings preceded Louis in death leaving him as the Patriarch of the Buckles family. He leaves to revere his memory, a loving wife, Juanita Williams Buckles; three children, Sharon Mitchell (Las Vegas, Nevada); Larry Williams (Natchez, Mississippi); Brandon Buckles (Las Vegas, Nevada); three stepchildren, Arnold Williams (Las Vegas, Nevada); Sherrona Williams (Las Vegas, Nevada); Gayla Buchanan (Birmingham, Alabama); one sister, Kizzie Curtis (Omaha, Nebraska); one brother-in-law, Sam Norwood, Jr. (Las Vegas, Nevada); four grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.