Photograph is from the BHS Class 1953 picnic in 2005, Classmate Vincent "Buck" Farley passed away on December 18, 2007. Buck will forever live in our hearts. We cherish our most recent memories of him while attending the BHS Class '53 fiftieth reunion in 2003.

Vincent "Buck" Farley - Aug. 2005

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Vincent Lee (Buck) Farley, 73, died December 18, 2007 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, N.C., of complications from a fall. He attended Bramwell High School and was active in sports.

Vincent served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Paris, France. He was retired from Westinghouse, Columbus, Ohio.

Vincent was born October 30, 1934, Montcalm, W.Va., the son of the late Charles Oscar and Elsie Farley. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Charles Oscar Farley, Jr., Ralph Donald Farley and James Robert Farley.Survivors include three sisters, Geraldine Farley Stine, E. Levern Farley of Fayetteville, N.C. and Isabelle Farley of Margate, FL.; nine nieces and nephews, nine great-nieces and great-nephews.

Memorial services held 11:00 a.m. Friday, July 18, 2008 at Roselawn Memorial Mausoleum in Princeton, W.Va. with the Rev. Jack Tankersley officiating. Sullivan’s Highland Funeral Service and Crematory, Inc. of Fayetteville, N.C. was in charge of arrangements.

Published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph on 7/17/2008

"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.”

- Laurence Binyon