Hubbard Taylor Buckner – VTDigger

Born 24 November 1937

Louisville, Kentucky

Died June 12, 2024

South Hero, Vermont

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Per Taylor’s wishes, there will be no wake, burial or memorial service. Contributions in his memory may be made to the South Hero Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments, 131 Community Lane, South Hero, 05486, and the McClure Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, 05446.

H. Taylor Buckner passed away peacefully at home with the help of MAID, at the age of 86.

He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the eldest of two sons of Hubbard George Buckner and Kate Tebbs (Helm) Buckner. He spent his early years attending school in Louisville.

After a very formative third year of study at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Taylor graduated from the University of Louisville with a bachelor’s degree in 1959. During a short time at Indiana University, he met Judith Friedl, married her and had a son, James Taylor Buckner.

lived in San Francisco and Oakland, California, where Taylor earned his MA in 1964 and his PhD in sociology in 1967, both from the University of California, Berkeley. While there, he wrote articles on police culture, rumor-mongering, the career paths of transvestites, and studied a flying saucer cult that some members thought was a Martian (he was 6’5″ tall and “everyone knows Martians are tall”). He later authored a book called Deviance, Reality and Change. For more details, see: http://tbuckner.com/

After teaching for a year at San Francisco State College, they moved to Montreal, Canada, where Taylor spent the next 30 years as a professor at Concordia University.

Several sabbaticals gave him the opportunity to travel the world in 1973/74, where he read the 6 o’clock news on ACTV in Osaka, Japan, improved his Spanish in Argentina and began his MBA in 1979/80. He completed his MBA studies at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales, the business school of the University of Montreal, in 1984.

While Taylor lived in Montreal, he founded a neighborhood organization – the Shaughnessy Village Association – that greatly improved the ambience of a small residential neighborhood in the city center. The association, which is still very active today, was instrumental in preserving the historic Victorian and Edwardian architecture of the old houses in the area and preventing their replacement by high-rise buildings.

Taylor’s first marriage ended in divorce in 1969. In 1972 he met Jennifer Grove and they married in 1975.

He retired in 1996, and in 1998 he and Jennifer moved to South Hero, Vermont, where Taylor opened a shotgun shop called Heros’ Arms.

He was predeceased by his parents. He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Jennifer Grove Buckner of South Hero, his son, James Taylor Buckner of Sherman Oaks, CA, and his brother, John A. Buckner of Louisville, KY.

Per Taylor’s wishes, there will be no wake, burial or memorial service. Contributions in his memory may be made to the South Hero Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments, 131 Community Lane, South Hero, 05486, and the McClure Miller Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt Hwy, Colchester, 05446.