Delbert Clell Buchanan's Obituary
JANUARY 27TH 2022
DELBERT CLELL BUCHANAN
BIRTH FBRUARY 6TH , 1934 TO JANUARY 27TH 2022
JANUARY 27TH , 2022 DELBERT CLELL BUCHANAN PASSED AWAY
QUIETLY AT McKay-DEE HOSPITAL AT 12 : 30 PM . DELBERT WAS WITH
FAMILY MEMBERS RELATIVES AND FRIENDS , AND A VERY SPECIAL MAN.
DOCTOR MARK MILLIGAN WHO WAS DELBERTS DOCTOR AND CLOSE
FRIEND. IT WAS ELIQUENTLY MENTIONED HE WAS A KIND AND
GENEROUS MAN AMAZING AND SPECIAL IN SO MANY WAYS !
DELBERT “ CLELL “ BUCHANAN.WAS (10) DAYS SHORT OF HS “88TH”
BIRTHDAY.
CLELL WAS BORN FEBRUARY 6TH 1934, TO DELBERT BUCHANAN AN IVA
LYNN SHEFFIELD IN POCATELLO ,IDAHO. CLELL WAS THE 6TH OF NINE
BROTHERS AND SISTERS. HE LOVED HIS FAMILY AND ALL WOULD STAY
CLOSE THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
HIS CHILDHOOD WAS SPENT IN POCATELLO INKCOM AN PORTNIFF IDAHO.
AND HIS MOTHER WAS ALWAYS GENTLE AND LOVING TO ALL HER
CHILDREN. EVEN UNDER THE MOST TRYING SITUATIONS .
THE CHILDRENS MOTHER “IVA LYNN “ BECAME ILL AND PASSED AWAY
FROM PNUEMONIA WHEN CLELL WAS NINE. UNDER THOSE
CIRCUMSTANCES THEY ONLY GREW STRONGER AND MORE DEVOTED TO
EACH OTHER. CLELL ALWAYS HAD PRAISE FOR HIS OLDEST BROTHERS
AND SISTERS DWIGHT RED AND KAY WERE THE OLDEST SONS. THEIR JOB
WAS TO HELP THE FAMILY WITH FIANACIAL SUPPORT. COLLEEN,CARMA
AND PAT WERE INTRODUCED TO MOTHERING AND HOME MAKING
BEFORE THEIR TIME. THEY ALL STEPPED UP AND PROVIDED NECESSARY
SUPPORT AFTER THEIR MOTHER WAS TAKEN SO YOUNG. THEY WERE ALL
SPECIAL PEOPLE, LOOKING BACK NOW NO ONE EVER BECAME BITTER IN
THEIR TRIALS. THERE ARE MANY ADMONISHMENTS OR PROVERBS ABOUT
JUDGING PEOPLE FOR QUESTIONABLE COMMITMENT OR SELFISH
ENDEVERS.WHEN CLELL WAS A PRE TEENAGE HE CONVEYED MANY
CHILD CHILDHOOD OCCUEA
CLELLS FATHER WORKED ON THE RAILROAD AND HE WORKED LONG AND
HARD
THE RAILROAD WAS A JOB THAT WAS AVAILABLE IN LARGE NUMBERS
FOR THOSE WHO COULD ENDURE THE PHYSICAL LABOR DELBERT
SENIOR WAS COMMITTED TO DOING HIS BEST FOR HIS FAMILY. EVEN
AFTER HIS SWEET WIFE WAS TAKEN. THE AMOUNT STRESS HE WAS
FEELING IS DIFFICULT SAY HOWEVER HE INSTILLED STRONG VALUES OF
WORKING HARD FAMILY UNITY AND THE OVERALL PROVISIONS THAT
WERE PART OF EVERY PERSONS LIFE. WHEN CLELL WOULD REMEMEBER
HIS EARLY YEARS THEY WERE FOND MEMORIES AND ALL BROTHERS AND
SISTERS HAVE REMAINED COMMITTED TO EACH OTHERS OVERALL
SUCCESS. THE THINGS THAT THE YOUNGEST CHILDREN HAD TO ENDURE
WAS DIFFICULT AND IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES PAINFUL AND ESPECIALLY
WHEN SEPARATION WAS A PART NECESSARY TO OVERALL SUCCESS.THE
FAMILY WAS ABLE TO STAY COMMITTED TO EACH OTHER AND REMAIN
FAITHFUL TO THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST AFTER LOSING A MOTHER SO
YOUNG I HAVE AN IDEA WHY THE LORD EMPHISIZED THE CONCEPT OF
COMMITMENT TO SERVICE OF OTHERS . LOVE IS PART OF CLELLS
MAKEUP HE WAS A MAN THAT COULD FORGET PAINFUL TRAJEDY AND
FORGIVE OTHERS WHEN UNITY FOR THE GROUP WAS IN QUESTION .
HIS LOYALTY TO THOSE HE LOVED WAS COMMENDABLE AND HIS
RELATIONSHIPS WITH THAT GROUP IN WATSONVILLE REMAINED IN TACT
UNTIL THE DAY EACH ONE PASSED AWAY. CLELL BEING THE FINAL ONE
TO LEAVE THIS WORLD . ALWAYS A PERSON THAT WAS UNCOMFORTABLE
WITH ANY LIFE THAT COULD TAKE HIM SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN
STEADY. HIS GROUP OF WERE SO CLOSE THAT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL THEY
ALL WENT AND ENLISTED IN THE BRANCH OF SEVICE THEY DESIRED TO
TO AFFILIATE AS A GROUP AT THE SAME TIME.
A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WAS DEVELOPED WHILE ATTENDING HIGH
SCHOOL . THIS WAS WITH A TRANSFER STUDENT FROM OREGON HER
NAME WAS PEGGY DEE FRENETTE. IF YOU WERE TO HEAR THAT
EVENTFUL STORY FROM CLELL ,LOTS OF OTHERS WERE INTERESTED,
BUT DAD STEPPED UP IN HIS GROUP AND LAID CLAIM TO HIS FUTURE
BRIDE AND TRUELY THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE.
AFTER ENLISTING IN THE SERVICE SEPARATION FROM PEGGY WAS A
CERTAINTY AND OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS THEY CONTINUED LIKE
ALL LONG DISTANCE RELATIONSHIPS AND THAT SEPARATION STOOD
THE TEST OF TIME AND EVENTUALLY IN CLELLS FINAL YEAR OF SERVICE
THEY WERE MARRIED AND SHORTLY AFTER HIS DISCHARGE FROM THE
NAVY THEY STARTED A FAMILY ON DUNECREST DRIVE IN MONTEREY,
CALIFORNIA. CLELLS FIRST JOB WAS WITH THE LOCAL TELEPHONE
COMPANY. HOWEVER IF THE TRUTH WAS KNOWN HE DEVELOPED A DEEP
HATERED FOR THAT CREEPY CRITTER KNOWN TO ALL AS THE
YELLOWJACKET !! THEIR BATTLE WAS INTENSE AND MANY TIMES
PAINFUL . IN THE END ( MORE WAYS THAN ONE ) THAT YELLOW MENACE
WAS VICTORIOUS. AS A RESULT OF THERE CONFRONTATION , THE
COUNTY OF MONTERY REMAINS IN TACKED TODAY BY QUICK REACTIONS
OF ALL PARTIES INVOLVED WHICH AVOIDED ANOTHER CALIFORNIA FIRE
DISASTER!!!!!! THAT WAR HE WAS INVOLVED IN EVENTUALLY LATER IN
LIFE STARTED AGAIN . THIS TIME HIS WEAPONRY WAS MUCH MORE
SOPHISTICATED
CLELLS BROTHERS HAD DEEP CONECTION TO EACH OTHER AND THAT
CONNECTION EXTENDED IN JUST ABOUT EVERY PART OF CLELLS LIFE .
AFTER A FEW YEARS IN MONTEREY THEY DECIDED TO MOVE TO THE
SANTA CLARA VALLEY IT WAS AN AREA WITH ALOT OF LAND AND THE
PEOPLE THAT FIRST BEGAN TO SETTLE THEY WERE ABLE TO PURCHASE
HOMES PRICED STARTED AT ( 8000.00 ) . CLELLS BROTHERS WERE FIRST
TO SETTLE AFTER LENGTHY DISCUSSION CLELL AND PEGGY MOVED TO
SANTA CLARA , CALIFORNIA THEY SETTLED JUST A FEW MILES FROM
DWIGHT AND RED. THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY PURCHASEDTHEIR HOMES
NEARLY AROUND THE CORNER FROM EACH OTHER .DELBERT AND
PEGGYS FAMILY WAS ABOUT TO BECOME LARGER. THE NEXT TO ARRIVE
WAS SHAWN ALAN BUCHANAN ROBIN AND SHAWN SO CLOSE IN AGE
SPENT A GREAT DEAL OF TIME TOGETHER. AND WHEN BOYS WERE BOYS
AND DISCIPLINE WAS NECESSARY IT WAS OFTEN EXTENDED TO BOTH
SONS
CLELL BEGAN HIS EMPLOYMENT FROM THAT POINT IN PARTNERSHIP
WITH HIS TWO OLDER BROTHERS . FRED HAD JOINED THE ARMY PRIOR TO
CLELL AND PEGGY LEAVING MONTEREY AND FRED SPENT SIGNIFICANT
TIME AT THEIR HOME THERE ARE LOTS OF PICTURES OF DUNECREST
DRIVE IT WAS LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE BEACH. CLELL
AND HIS BROTHERS NOW IN THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY BEGAN VARIOUS
PARTNERSHIPS IN APPLIANCE DELIVERY FREIGHT DELIVERY ,CLELL
SPENT TIME IN MANAGEMENT WITH A PARCEL SERVICE . FOR SHORT TIME
WORKED FOR PEPSI COLA. EVENTUALLY HE BEGAN WORKING WITH
DWIGHT AN RED IN CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICLY THE REMODELING OF
COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. THAT TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT
WAS WHERE HE WOULD CONTINUE UNTIL HIS WIFE REQUIRED HELP DUE
TO MEDICAL ISSUES .
THERE IS AN AREA OF CLELLS LIFE IF I WERE TO GO INTO DETAIL THIS
WRITING WOULD REQUIRE BEING BOUND. THE BROTHERS WERE AVID
HUNTERS AND FOR EVERY SEASON OF THE YEAR THERE WAS A BIRD OR
SOME TYPE OF GAME THAT WAS OPEN SEASON TO HUNT . AS ALL CLELLS
BROTHERS WERE OLDER AND THEY HAD SONS AND CLELL HAD SONS
EVENTUALLY THESE TRIPS GREW IN SIZE TO OVER TWENTY PEOPLE. YOU
MIGHT BE THINKING THAT MANY GUNS IN THE HANDS OF BUCHANANS
WAS AT LEAST QUESTIONABLE . HOWEVER GUNS AND SAFETY WERE A
NO EXCEPTION AREA . EVERYONE ALWAY ARRIVED HOME SAFE AND
SOUND . CLELL LOVED ADVENTUE ANDTHERE ARE TWO THAT DEFINED
HIM AND HIS BROTHERS. ONE WAS WHEN DWIGHT HAD A FALL THATON
FISHING TRIP THAT SEVERELY BROKE HIS LEG. THAT WAS WHEN HIS DEEP
LOVE OF THE GOSPLE AND OF JESUS CHRIST WAS EVIDENT AND WERE
YOU ABLE TO ASK HIM DWIGHT WAS ABLE TO KEEP THAT LEG THROUGH
THE POWER THAT CHRIST ALLOWED THEM. YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT
BUCHANAN WIVES ENDURED MANY HOURS OF NEGLECT AND THAT WAS
VOCALIZED MANY TIMES. MY MOTHERS IDEA ON THE THE SUBJECT WAS
SHE COULD HAVE SOME PEACE AND QUIET. THERE IS ONE MORE
ADVENTURE ACTUALLY THERE HUNDREDS BUT ONE VERY POPULAR
STANDS OUT. THE SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORAL ! BUT YOU WILL NEED
TO SEE CLELL ON THE OTHER SIDE
THE LAST BUCHANAN SON TO BE BORN TO CLELL WAS AARON KAY THE
BABY BORN ON THE SAME DAY AS ROBIN 12 YEARS APART AND SHAWN
WAS NINE YEARS HOWEVER THAT AGE DIFFERENCE WAS NO BARRIER
OLDER TEASED YOUNGER YOUNGER LASHES OUT BABY PROTECTED BY
CLELL AND PEGGY. EACH SON TOOK HIS TURN IN YOUTH SPORTS AND
CLELL AND PEGGY SOMEHOW NEVER MISSED AN IMPORTANT GAME . THIS
COULD GO ON FOREVER BUT REALLY THE CORE OF DELBERT CLEL
BUCHANAN WAS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD THE FATHER AND HIS SON
NEXT HIS DEVOTION TO WIFE AND FAMILY AND FINALLY HIS ROOT THE
DEEP CONNECTION HE HAD AND KEPT THROUGHOUT LIFE FAMILY NEVER
SEVERED AND HE I AM CERTAIN WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THROUGH
ETERNITY
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE AT 11:00 A.M. ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2022 AT THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS BUILDING LOCATED AT 220 WEST 975 NROTH, SUNSET, UT WITH A VIEWING STARTING AT 9;30 A.M. BURIAL WILL BE AT 11:00 A.M. ON FRIDAY, BEFRUARY 4, 2022 AT UTAH VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK IN BLUFFDALE.
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