Alma Jean (Crawford) Busch (1964)

BUSCH, CRAWFORD, MORSE, PALMER, TIPTON, VARNER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:37

The Jefferson Bee
Jefferson, Iowa
Tuesday, May 5, 1964
Page 6, Column 3

Alma Busch Services are Held Monday

Funeral services for Mrs. Alma Jean Busch were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Slininger Chapel. The Rev. Clinton B. Meinnger, minister of Central Christian Church, officiated.

Mrs. James Kearney sang “In the Garden” and “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” accompanied by Mrs. Curtis Wilson.

Casket bearers were Moody Greenfield, Lawrence Matzen, George Ratcliff, W. C. Morse, Gerald Lawton and Carl Van Sickle. Burial was in Pleasant View Cemetery at Winterset.

Alma Jean, daughter of Ira and Alma Varner Crawford, was born Jan. 30, 1912, in Andrew county, Mo., and died at her home in Cooper on May 1, 1964, having reached the age of 52 years, three months and one day.

When she was 15 years old the family moved to Winterset.

On Nov. 9, 1928, she was united in marriage to Joe W. Busch at Newton. They were the parents of six children. The couple farmed from 1928 to 1949 in Madison county, coming to Greene county in 1949, where they have since lived.

Mrs. Busch was preceded in death by two children, Michael Donald and Viola Maie, and her father. She is survived by her husband, Joe; her children, Mrs. William (Mary Junita) Morse Jr. of Knoxville, Mrs. Charles (Doris Pauline) Tipton of Rippey, Joe Wayne and Jerald D., both of Jefferson; her mother, Mrs. Jesse Palmer of Fremont, Neb.; three brothers, Charles Crawford of Winterset; Forrest and Lloyd Crawford both of Olathe, Kan.; 10 grandchildren, other relatives and a host of friends.

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