Dr. Mary Sylvia Buoni passed away early on the morning of Saturday, June 16th at Holmes Regional Medical Center. Her husband of eight years, Dr. Frederick Buell Buoni as well as her step-son, Frederick B. Buoni, II were at her side. Also surviving Mary are her daughter, Katherine Kennedy, step-son Gregory P. Buoni and his wife Beatriz. Grandchildren are Katya Buoni, Katherine A. Crist and husband David Crist, and Steven F. Buoni and his wife Sabrina.
Mary was born on April 22, 1936 in Detroit MI to Julius and Mary Semperger. She attended parochial elementary and high school and then married. While raising her daughter, Mary worked as an accountant for the Detroit Club and for Motown Records. She also served as office manager for an advertising agency. In 1975, at the urging of friends in the chiropractic community she began studies at the National Chiropractic College in Lombard, IL. She received her Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1981 and then practiced for 20 years until retiring to Punta Gorda, FL in 2001. Following the untimely death of her second husband, Bob Dine, she moved to Port St. John in 2003. She met Fred Buoni while singing with the Brevard Chorale and the Brevard Community Chorus in 2006 and they married at the Brevard Museum of Science and Natural History on May 1, 2010. During their years together, they took cruises to the capital cities on the Baltic Sea, to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, around South America including visiting Machu Pichu and traveling up the Amazon River to Manaus, and the Voyage of the Vikings visiting Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Amsterdam, Dublin, Belfast, Newfoundland and Bar Harbor, ME. With the Brevard Community Chorus, they visited and sang in Scandinavia, Siros Greece and Paris France. In addition they took Elderhostle/Roads Scholar trips to the Metropolitan Opera, the Cultural History of London and two weeks in Paris. They also took a trip through central Europe from the Oktoberfest in Munich to Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw, Berlin, Prague and back to Vienna.
Since she came to the Space Coast Mary has appeared with the Brevard Community Chorus and the Brevard Chorale. She was a showgirl and a singer in the Fabulous Florida Follies given in 2008. She was also a member of the BSO Central and South Guilds and the Brevard Museum of Science and Natural History Guild. She will be missed by many people.
There will be a Celebration of Life held at 4pm on Saturday July 7 at The Life Event Center at Florida Memorial.
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