Bushong, Mary Elizabeth (Gorsuch) 1873-1936

BUSHONG, GORSUCH, MCMASTERS, SWINK, OWEN, CURRY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/11/2018 at 22:54:24

February 23, 1873 --- April 23, 1936

MRS. MARY BUSHONG RITES ON SATURDAY
Died Thursday Morning at Her Home
Spent Almost Entire Life in Poweshiek and Mahaska Counties

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Bushong, who died at 2 o'clock last Thursday morning, were held Saturday afternoon from the Methodist church, the Rev. J.H. Krenmyre in charge. Interment was made in the Montezuma cemetery.

Mrs. C. W. Gorsuch sang "The Have of Rest" and "Is My Name Written There," accompanied at the organ by Miss Alice Underwood.

Pallbearers were Chas. Gorsuch, Clyde Gorsuch, James Gorsuch, Leslie Gorsuch, Llanos Latcham and Fred Curry.

Mrs. Bushong suffered a light stroke of paralysis at her home sometime Wednesday and was not found until 9 o'clock that evening by her son, Harold, who came home from work at that time. She never regained consciousness and died at 8 o'clock the next morning.

Mary Elizabeth Gorsuch, youngest child of Joshua R. and Eleanor McMasters Gorsuch, was born on a farm southwest of Montezuma in the Bethel Grove vicinity, February 23, 1873, and passed away April 23, 1936, at the age of 63 years and two months.

As a girl she attended the rural school near Bethel Grove, later graduating from the Montezuma high school in the class of 1892.

On February 23, 1896, she was united in marriage to J. Miles Bushong, and to this union five children were born: Mrs. Matilda Swink of New Sharon, Wanda of Des Moines, John F. of Montezuma, Mrs. Helen Owen of Des Moines, and Harold, who live at home with her.

She lived all her life in Poweshiek and Mahaska counties, with the exception of a very short time elsewhere. She united with the Methodist church at Bethel Grove when a small girl, and it was her wish to enter the ministry but her health would not permit. She was a diligent student of the Bible and her children have cherished memories of the long and many passages she taught them in childhood from the Book she loved. She had been in frail health for many years, seldom leaving her home.

Besides her immediate family she leaves four grandsons: Max and Clair Swink, Donald C. Owen and Kenneth Floyd Bushong; a sister, Mrs. Irene A. Curry of Oskaloosa, and a brother, James L. Gorsuch of Lodi, Calif. She was left motherless when very young and her father preceded her in death December 1, 1907. Four brothers and two sisters also preceded her in death.

30 April 1936
Montezuma Republican --- Montezuma, Iowa