William Allen Buchmiller, II, age 59, of Perryton, Texas passed away October 22, 2024 near Limon, Colorado.  A funeral service will be held at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Perryton, Texas on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.  After the funeral Allen will be cremated with interment in Fairmont Cemetery in Follett, Texas.  Funeral arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home, Inc. of Perryton, Texas.

Allen was born on September 9th, 1965 in Springfield, Illinois to William Allen Buchmiller, I, and Marilyn Jean Troesch Buchmiller.  He attended school in Litchfield, Illinois.

After serving in the Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he returned to Illinois where he met and married Patricia Griffith in 1986.  They ran group homes for teens in Illinois.  They lived in New Mexico and Oregon before settling in Seiling, Oklahoma.  Patti and Allen fostered hundreds of children while in Seiling.  They were named Oklahoma Foster Parents of the year in 2006.

Following Patti's death, Allen went out on the road for several years.  He moved to Perryton, Texas in 2018 to be with Catherine Rabe.  They were married in 2020.

Allen was a truck driver for over 38 years.  He hauled flatbed, cattle, tanker and everything in between.  He spent the last 3 years driving for Rocking T Trucking out of Amarillo, Texas.  It was a job he truly enjoyed while traveling the country.

Mr. Buchmiller is survived by his wife, Cathy, of the home; sons Mark Nelson of Springfield, Illinois, Christopher Buchmiller of Dallas, Texas, and Tracy Buchmiller and family of Woodward, Oklahoma; daughter Jacqueline Griffing and family of Woodward, Oklahoma; brother Gerald Hederick of Lead Hill, Arkansas; step sons Brett Landers of Portland, Oregon and Andrew Landers of Salina, Kansas; mother-in-law Ellen Rabe of Perryton, Texas; along with 11 grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.  He also had many young people consider him a father figure or one of "his kids," including Eric Young of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Capella Carman of Seiling, Oklahoma.

Mr. Buchmiller was preceded in death by his parents and his first wife Patricia Diane Griffiths Buchmiller.

He had the biggest heart anyone could have.  He loved his family more than anything.