Dr. Robert Monroe Bucher ¹

   FamilySearch ID: 9NHJ-NWS.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1930 in Ridley Park, Delaware, PA. ² Living at 407 Free St: Joseph W. Bucher, teacher university, 44, was living with wife Ellen K., 32. He married at age 33, she at 21. Living with them: Robert M., 9; John H., 7; and W. Raymond, 8 months when the census was recorded on 18 Apr 1930. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

2. Residence: in Jan 1978 in Mobile, Mobile, AL. ¹

3. Obituary: Tuscaloosa News on 3 Jun 1998 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL. Robert Bucher was raised in Ridley Park PA. He received an M.D. from Temple University Medical School...and served in the army. He specialized in thoracic surgery, became Professor of Surgery and then Dean of Temple Medical School.
Following a brief tenure with the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Bucher then helped to establish the University of South Alabama Medical School in Mobile as the First Dean.
He officially retired as Professor Emeritus, and developed a small private practice on Dauphin Island where he pioneered that community's Paramedic service. Dr. Bucher relocated to Tuscaloosa in 1998.
He was an avid musician and played banjo and guitars with Paper Moon, The Dixie Downbeats and various other jazz bands. He was active in volunteering his services to the Phoenix House, and also taught Advanced Trauma Life Support classes to physicians around the state of Alabama.

Robert married Elizabeth Ann Matlack, daughter of David Johnson Matlack and Elizabeth Emily Fawley. (Elizabeth Ann Matlack was born on 25 Jun 1925 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA and died on 5 Sep 1994 in Cottondale, Tuscaloosa, AL.)