Busch, Mary 1882-1956

BUSCH, SCHMIDT, BUSACKER, RITTER, SCHLAKE, HOUG, EMBRETSON, HERRMANN, ENGELHARDT, STEEGE

Posted By: Ken Johnson (email)
Date: 3/13/2016 at 19:51:46

[From the Thurs., 5 Apr. 1956 issue, Clayton County Register (Elkader, IA), St. Olaf section, page 4, column 6]

Mrs. Mary E. Busch

Mary E. Busch was born near Garnavillo, Iowa, September 29, 1882. She married at the age of 22 and moved to South Dakota. Five years later, she returned and lived on a farm near St. Olaf. Later she went to live in Chicago, where she practiced the art of making flowers, which later developed into a business, and made her many friends. During the last three years she made her home in Dubuque, Iowa, where she became ill and was taken to the Finley hospital, where she died March 24, 1956, at the age of 74 years.

Survivors include one sister, Anna Schmidt, three brothers, Bill, Ed, and Art Schmidt, all of Chicago, Ill., two sons, Edward and Harvey of St. Olaf, one daughter, Mrs. Theresa Ritter of Los Angeles, Calif., also three grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Witt funeral chapel on Tuesday afternoon, March 27, with the Rev. R. H. Steege of Farmersburg officiating. Burial was in the Farmersburg cemetery.

Pallbearers were: Donald Houg, Vermett Embretson, Harley Herrmann, and Alonzo Engelhardt.

Card of Thanks

We wish to express our sincere thanks to our neighbors, relatives and friends for their kindness. Our sincere thanks for the memory wreaths, floral offerings and kind expressions of sympathy.

Harvey Busch.
Edward Busch.
Mrs. Theresa Ritter.

[TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: She was baptized at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Garnavillo, Iowa, and that record gives her birth date as 21 Sept. 1882. The scan of her obituary online is a bit out of focus, but the birth date looks like 29 September. Also, according to her baptism record, she was the daughter of Adolph Busacker and Louise Schlake, who were also the parents of her sister Anna, whose baptism is also recorded in the St. Paul Lutheran Church records at Garnavillo. Louise Schlake Busacker later married Charles F. Schmidt, and their three sons (William, Edward, and Arthur) were also baptized at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Garnavillo.]