Fire-Rescue News- Pedestrian killed in Absecon was a teacher in Galloway for 40 years; was hit leaving hairdresser's

Joan Buckow, left, of Absecon, during a Bacharach auxiliary fashion show in 2007 at the Tropicana Casino and Resort.

Photo by: Staff file photo by Ben Fogletto, July 30, 2007

From Press staff reports | Posted: Sunday, April 18, 2010 | 11 comments

Absecon resident Joan Buckow, 82, died Friday when an 84-year-old driver backed out of a Station Avenue parking space and hit her, police said Saturday.

Buckow's husband of 56 years, Emil Buckow, said she had been a teacher in the Galloway Township school system for....Continue Reading

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 40 years before she retired about 10 years ago. The Haddon Avenue resident taught kindergarten and other grades at the Cologne Avenue and Arthur Rann schools.

"She was a fantastic teacher," Emil Buckow said. "She loved children, and she loved life. She had a kind heart, and she would help anyone who needed help."

Emil and Joan Buckow - born Joan Mazari in Mt. Carmel, Pa. - had no children.

Emil Buckow said his wife was leaving a hairdresser on Station Avenue when she was struck about 2:15 p.m. Friday afternoon. Officials pronounced Joan Buckow dead at the scene about 15 minutes after the accident, and police arrived at Emil's door shortly afterward.

Police have not said whether the driver, Egg Harbor City resident Lorraine Marschall, will be charged.

A woman who lives near the accident scene said she heard several people shouting, warning the driver not to back up, and the witness saw a person lying in the street behind Marschall's car.

Staff writers Steven Lemongello and Derek Harper

Posted in TOP THREE on Sunday, April 18, 2010 6:15 am Updated: 7:16 am.

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