Mary Parker Harmon Buckles | The Northside Sun

Feb 23, 2025

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Graveside services for former Jackson resident Mary Parker Harmon Buckles of Nashville will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, February 28, at the Quiet Rest Cemetery in Goodman.

Born in Jackson in 1942, the daughter of Mary and Carter Harmon, their daughter’s presence completed this family of active nature lovers. She was a graduate of Murrah High School and in 1964 received her bachelor’s degree in English as an honor student at Millsaps College. While at Millsaps, Mary Parker participated in the Millsaps Singers, and was a member of Sigma Lambda leadership honorary and Chi Omega fraternity.

After receiving a master’s degree in English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, she married classmate Stephen G. Buckles. They moved to New York where she began her career as a writer and editor with the National Audubon Society and wrote her first books, “Animals of the World” and “Mammals of the World.” “The Flowers Around Us,” a collaborative photographic essay she had written with her father using his photographs, deals with the reproductive structures of flowers and was published in 1985.

When the Buckles relocated to a cottage in Darien, Conn. in 1989 she began a journal about her new environment, which became “Margins: A Naturalist Meets Long Island Sound.” She described the book, which took several years to compile and was published in 1997, as “a collection of writings sharing meetings and ‘remeetings’ with the living things of the water and the land that surrounds Long Island Sound.”

Mary Parker continued to pursue her love for music, singing with the New York Symphony’s choral society during their years in Connecticut and with the choral society of the Nashville Symphony in recent years.

Friends are also invited to the chapel at Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church, 305 North Congress, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Febrary 28 to visit with Dr. Buckles before he returns to Nashville.

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