The campus community mourns the passing of Alice VanBuskirk, 78, who died Thursday, Jan. 9. Alice retired after more than 25 years of service to Bucknell as an academic assistant in the Department of Economics.
I encourage you to visit our In Memoriam site to share personal notes of sympathy and remembrance with others.
On behalf of our entire University community, I extend our deepest sympathies to Alice’s family, as well as to all who knew her at Bucknell.
John C. Bravman
President
Alice Kathryn (Brouse) VanBuskirk, 78, of Lewisburg, went home to her Lord Thursday morning, Jan. 9, 2025, at Geisinger Medical Center.
Alice was born Jan. 16, 1946, at Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, a daughter of the late Reuben and Mary (Crabb) Brouse. She married Terry Van-Buskirk on April 14, 1967, a marriage that lasted 50 years until Terry’s passing in 2017.
She was a 1963 graduate of Lewisburg High School and a 1964 graduate of Thompson Institute in Harrisburg.
She was employed at Bucknell for over 25 years. She enjoyed reading, spending time with her grandchildren, and time at the family cabin.
She is survived by two children, Wendy and Jerry Shoemaker and Terry and Kara VanBuskirk; and four grandchildren, Heather and Tim Vandenberg, Amanda Jo Shoemaker, Mitchell and Madison VanBuskirk.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Harold and Scott Brouse.
Friends and relatives will be received at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 13, at the John H. Shaw III Funeral Home, Lewisburg when the funeral will begin with the Rev. John H. Shaw III officiating.
Burial will follow in the Lewisburg Cemetery.
Alice was a super department assistant and a valued member of the department community. In addition to doing what all dept. assts. do, Alice was also married to Terry who worked in the Physical Plant department. So whenever it was too hot or too cold in our offices, someone would ask Alice to “get Terry on the blower, it is to hot/cold”, and Terry would come and do his magic to whatever device was in need of his magic. We missed both Alice and Terry when she retired. A friend of all in the Economics Department.