St. Clair County Obits

ROY LEE CALVIRD, JR.

St. Clair County Courier
August 1996
Roy L. "Buck" Calvird, Jr., died Sunday, August 18, 1996 at Golden Valley Hospital, Clinton, Mo. Memorial funeral services will be held at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 21, at the Anderson Funeral Home, 3rd and Grandriver, Clinton, with Rev. Richard Page officiating. The family will receive friends after the memorial service at the funeral home.
Buck was born in Osceola, May 27, 1934, the son of Roy Lee Calvird, Sr., and Jeannette Averill Drebelbis Calvird. He was a WW II Veteran of the U.S. Marines and had worked as an electrician for the Electrical Worker's Union #124 until retiring in 1981. He had operated the Amvets Club in Urich and had operated Tiff's Fireworks and other fireworks stands in the area for the past ten years. He was a member of the Eagles Lodge and the American Legion in Clinton and was a member of Amvets Post #120 in Urich.
Mr. Calvird is survived by his wife, Veta, of the home, as well as four daughters, Tammy Louise Calvird, Clinton; Terri Brownsberger, Montrose; Tracy Burns, Clinton; Tiffany Tate, Clinton; and five grandchildren: Kellan Palmer, Amber Palmer, Danielle Pennington, Dakota Calvird and Dalton Tate.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Nancy Calvird.
Mr. Calvird's cremation remains will be buried in the Osceola Cemetery, Osceola, Mo.