October 28, 1936 — August 12, 2025 (age 88)
Nadine Buck Goertzen returned to her Heavenly Father on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, in Logan, Utah, after a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was born on October 28, 1936, in Menan, Idaho, to Joseph Percival Buck and Katherine Mary Tibbitts Buck, the third of nine children.
During World War II, her family moved often as her father, Joe, worked as a machinist in various locations—Ogden, Utah; Minneapolis, Minnesota; LeClair, Iowa; and Beale Air Force Base, California—where Nadine began first grade. After the war, they returned to Idaho, and she completed her schooling in American Falls.
In 1951, at age 14, Nadine met “the new boy in town,” Leonard Goertzen. Although he was 2½ years older and initially saw her as a friend, their frie