KATHY ANN BUCKNER - OBITUARY

Kathy Ann Buckner Tusinski, age 56, of Spring, Texas, received her heavenly reward, June 28, 2019, 12:55 a.m. at Northwest Houston Hospital in Houston, Texas.  Memorial services and a Celebration of life are planned for July 13, 2019, 11:00 a.m., at Cypress Fellowship, 16620 Cypress Rose Hill Road, Cypress, Texas, 77429.  Pastor Larry James officiating. Guests are invited to bring their favorite dish to the celebration, immediately following the service and share their favorite memories.  
 

     Kathy was born August 17, 1962 to James Allen and Ruby Lene (Harris) Buckner in Huntsville, Madison, Alabama. She graduated from Cy-Fair High School in 1980.  Continuing her education at Houston Community College. Having grown up in the South, living in Elkmont Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, and Texas throughout her childhood. Settling in Houston and the surrounding areas in her adult life. Kathy's heart was filled with joy in 1988 when her son Ben was born, she felt so very blessed. Her dreams were filled with all new possibilities. Later, she met the love of her life, Joseph Anthony Tusinski II in 1999, they were married on March 20, 2004 and shared an additional fifteen joyous, loving, tender, indestructible years together. Together, they became Godparents to Brendan and Tyler, a role in which Kathy was dedicated to. Joseph was Kathy's number one care provider during her times of surgeries and recoveries. She would have no other.

      First and foremost Kathy loved the Lord. She was a Sunday school teacher, an intercessor and a home group leader. If you ever met Kathy,  she has most likely prayed for you. This woman knew the power of prayer. She stood in the gap, Ezekiel 22:30. She is a warrior for the Lord. To the future Mrs. Ben Buckner, (her sons future wife) whomever you might be, know Kathy has been praying for you since 1987. One of her many passions was singing and worshiping the Lord. She loved sewing, playing board games, cooking, digging in the dirt and growing flowers & herbs. She filled her home with a wide variety of art and family photographs, including the “Wall of Ben", a wall, in every home she has lived, covered in pictures of the son she adored and was so proud of.  Kathy always made extra effort to spend time with the children, your children, my children, her nieces & nephews, her younger cousins, she would get right down in the floor and play with them, just as if she was a child.  She enjoyed invisible tea in a tiny cup, hammering wooden nails and coloring too. She loved to spoil them with gifts, toys and candy, trips to the beach, water park, zoo, circus or museum. In her younger days she attended rock concerts, her favorite was Kiss, the first of which she attended with her mother when she was 16, that is one Moma never forgot! Later in life Kathy replaced her concerts of rock with the symphony and theater.  She was a facilitator, a git'er dun kinda gal. "The Buck Stops Here" should have been a plaque on her desk. She had no fear, barring the Lord. She lived and loved large and had a heart as big as Texas. Kathy impacted so many lives, the ripple which shall be felt for generations to come.    

     Kathy was well accomplished in her career and worked for a multitude of companies in many positions throughout her lifetime. Elevating her position and capabilities with each one. In the early days she worked for Texas Instruments and Compact. Among the various positions and promotions were engineering checker and editor of technical documentation. She started out at BJ Services in the I.T. industry. She entered the oil and gas industry with Shell & BP Oil as a business annalist and project manager. She dealt with process improvement and measuring how well a business was running. She would analyze and improve the process to make them better and more profitable. A manager of financial decisions once requested Kathy solely, he wanted no other, because he knew her capabilities, attention to detail, ability to achieve, thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task, was exactly what the company needed. For Kathy, it wasn't about the numbers, it was about the people and how it affected their lives. Her personal goal was not to layoff people to save money but to improve and optimize the process to save money without layoffs. Her priority was the lives of strangers. Strangers that never knew she prayed for them and had their livelihoods as her utmost concern. Kathy said "I wanted to leave people better off than when I found them".  

     She is preceded in death by her father; brothers Ricky Lynn & Charles Glynn Norman and James Henry Marlow Buckner; grandparents James Henry Preston & Florence Edith (Preston) Buckner and William Newton & Clara Alice (Solomon) Harris. She leaves behind her husband, Joseph Tusinski; son Benjamin Buckner of Houston; mother, Ruby Buckner of Cypress, Texas; siblings Valeria & Desmond Shelton of Hazel Green, Alabama, Deedee & Ronnie Wilburn of Toney, Alabama, Jenny Buckner of Cypress, Texas, Jim & Kelli Buckner of Prospect, Tennessee; Godsons Brendan Douglas and Tyler Tucker of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana; grand-puppy Lulu; 19 beloved nieces & nephews Chris Norman, Mandy(Norman) Amerson, both of Athens, Alabama, Shannon(Buckner) Curry & husband Patrick, of Cypress, Texas, Jacob Ratley, of Toney, Alabama, Alaina (Buckner) Horton & husband Patrick, of La Grange, Texas, Jamie (Buckner) Smullen & husband Scott, of Boston, Massachusetts, Natalie (Justice) Giles & husband Robin, of Nashville, Tennessee, Callie Walker, of Madison, Alabama, Caleb Justice, of Hazel Green, Alabama, K.K. (Shelton) Edwards, of Hazel Green, Alabama, Jasmine Shelton, of Madison, Alabama, Ronnie Shelton II, of Ryland, Alabama, Danielle McKnight, of Madison, Alabama, Jared Buckner, Levi Sides, both of Cypress, Texas, Daylee, Camryn, Dallas & Marley Buckner, all four of Prospect, Tennessee; 12 grand-nieces & nephews: Alexis Ratley, of Minot, North Dakota, Conner Norman, Clint and Eliza Amerson, all three of Athens, Alabama, Tanner Barnes, Beaux Curry, both of Cypress, Texas, Brayden & Collin Horton, both of La Grange, Texas, Avalynn & Kylynn Smullen, both of Boston, Massachusetts, Kadence Furr & Addy Armstrong both of Madison, Alabama; Uncle Shorty Harris & wife Aunt Dot of Elkmont, Alabama; Aunt Nancy (Buckner) Roland Valdez of Magnolia, Texas and a multitude of other family & friends.