David Buesing 1926-1944

BUESING

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Date: 12/31/2020 at 08:45:54

11 May 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

David Buesing, 18, son of Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Buesing, Anamosa, died Monday evening at the University hospital, Iowa City, where he had been taken a week earlier. Cause of death was a streptococcic infection of the lungs.

David graduated from the Anamosa high school in 1943. He enrolled at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, last fall, where he was a student until early this spring when he was forced to discontinue his studies because of ill health.

Funeral service will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the St. Paul's American Lutheran church in Anamosa, where his father is pastor. Officiating at the service will be Rev. H. W. Siefkes, president of the Iowa District of American Lutheran churches, Rev. H. L. Adix, ex-president of the Iowa District, and Rev. A. C. Proehl, Iowa City, student pastor.

Smykil funeral home is in charge of arrangements.

18 May 1944 - The Anamosa Journal

Funeral service was conducted on Friday afternoon, May 12, at 2 o'clock for David William Buesing in St. Paul's American Lutheran church, officiated by the Rev. H. W. Siefkes, Waterloo, president of the Iowa district of the A.L.C., the Rev. H. L. Adix, Monticello, and the Rev. A. C. Proehl, student pastor of Iowa City.

Group of pastors sang, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Only, Without Him My Soul is Lonely" and the Rev. A. Thalacker sang, "The Lord is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want."

Members of St. Paul's Luther league and the 1943 class of the Anamosa high school formed an honor guard both to and from the church. Casketbearers were Howard "Shorty" Larson, Robert Andreesen, John Miller, Allen Handel, Duane Herron and Paul Zimmerman.

Many were the beautiful floral offerings of relatives, friends, class and school mates, and due to to David's devoted allegiance to Christ Jesus and the church, the amount of $310 dollars were established as a memorial wreath towards the perpetual propagation of God's Kingdom within 12 institutions. St. Paul's Lutheran church of Anamosa, of which David was a member, gave $100 in loving memory.

Following life's history was read by the Rev. H. L. Adix, Monticello:
David William Buesing, only son of the Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Buesing, was born on Saturday, between Good Friday and Easter, April 3, 1926, in Merrill, Wis., also the birthplace of his beloved mother. Due to his parents deep conviction in the Lord's Sacrament of Holy Baptism, David was adopted by the Lord, His Savior, as early as the fifth day of his life, by being admitted into the kingdom of God through the washing of regeneration administered by his pastor-father.

As a child already David imbibed many religious truths in God's Book in his parental home in Wisconsin. This was continued the new home when he, his parents and sister moved to Elkport, Ia., where his life was blessed with three years of Bible study. On July 23, 1939, he vowed faithfulness to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, on his confirmation.

On August 31, 1939, Anamosa became the new earthly dwelling place for David, his sister and parents. With the beginning of the fall school term, he enrolled in the high school, which were four very pleasant years to him, deeply imbedded in his memory, both as to teachers and classmates.

In May of last year, he graduated, the youngest boy in the class. During the summer of 1943, his further urgent quest for knowledge took him to the University of Iowa at Iowa City, enrolling as a liberal arts student with the ultimate aim of preparing for the profession of medicine and surgery so that he might better lend aid to the needy and aleviation to the sick and afflicted. But long before this hope could ever begin to come true, he himself became afflicted with pleurisy in the fall of 1943 which however unfortunately, was not detected even by medical minds until April 3, though consulted four times, until a local physician diagnosed his illness correctly and immediately went about the restoration of health. But even with the transfer to the University hospital, the gift of health could not be regained, for weakening steadily under the strain of five weeks of serious illness, his physical strength gave way to peaceful sleep on May 8, 1944, at 9 p.m. in the presence of his ever watchful and beloved mother.

Deeply enshrined in David's heart and soul were the endurable truths of the Gospel of Christ.

Most everyone who came in contact with David will readily bear witness that his religious convictions were of the divine kind and not on the sinking sand of men's doctrine, but upon the eternal Word of the Rock of Ages. Very plainly on the evening of May 4, he confessed his unworthiness before God by saying to his praying father, "Daddy it is this, God be merciful to me a sinner" and "Jesus is the Son of God." The joyous climax of such a confession is told by Jesus, 'He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." That promise of Christ David accepted in full faith without any merit or worthiness on his own part. The good work of faith which the Lord, His Savior began in him is now completed as to the soul and will be as to the body on the final day of judgment.

His earthly pilgrimage is numbered by 18 years, 1 month and 5 days, but his eternal home life in Paradise is counted in immeasureable endlessness in glory.

He leaves to mourn, his Gospel preaching father, his deeply beloved mother, and his endearing sister, Dorothy Louise, many relatives, church members, class and school mates, and a vast host of friends.

Burial was made at Riverside cemeteryl.