Background
Buckner, Walter Coleman was born on January 9, 1883 in Macedonia, Iowa, United States. Son of Review John W. and Cora Estelle (Willard) Buckner.
Buckner, Walter Coleman was born on January 9, 1883 in Macedonia, Iowa, United States. Son of Review John W. and Cora Estelle (Willard) Buckner.
Preparatory education, high schools, Scranton, Iowa, and Hiawatha, Kansas. Student Baker University, 1900-1903. Doctor of Divinity, College of the Pacific, 1936, U. Southern California, 1940.
Doctor of Laws, Baker University, 1942.
Ordained ministry Mechanical Engineering Church, 1908. Pastor Dinuba, California, 1908, Corcoran, 1909-1910, Tulare, 1911-1917, Pomona, 1917-1921, Pasadena, 1921-1924. Superintendent Pasadena district, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924-1930.
Pastor First Methodist Episcopal Church, Fresno, California, 1930-1936.
District superintendent Long Beach District, 1936-1938, Los Angeles District, 1938-1942. Pastor First Methodist Church, Santa Ana, California, 1942-1944.
Vermont Square Methodist Church, Los Angeles, 1944-1946. Company-pastor First Methodist Church, Glendale, 1946-1951.
Minister of administration First Methodist Church, Pasadena, since 1951.
Member North American Board for Study of Religion in Higher Education. Member of national panel of arbitrators, American Arbitration Association. Member Judicial Council, Methodist Church, since 1939.
Member Delta Tau Delta, Pi Gamma Museum.
Married Eva Harriet Wright, July 30, 1908. Children: Theodore John (deceased), Gladys (Mistress Nicholas Bondoc), Louise (Mistress Leon Eakes), Walter Coleman.