Lurley O. (Wilson) BUSS

BUSS, WILSON, NICKERSON, SCHATZBERG, MAROLF, COOBS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/7/2011 at 18:07:22

June 12, 1900 - June 26, 1988

Lurley O. Buss, age 88, died in Cedar Falls, Iowa on June 26, 1988. Her memorial services were held at the Klemme United Methodist Church with interment in the Calvary Cemetery in Klemme, Iowa.

Lurley was born June 12, 1900, the daughter of George and Florence (Nickerson) Wilson in Macon County, Illinois. She married Harry E. Buss in 1922 and together they served the former Evangelical United Brethren Churches at Columbus City, Letts, Morley, Hudson, Gladbrook, Washington Chapel, Aredale and Zearing, Iowa. Her husband retired from the ministry in 1969 and died in 1978. She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Merlin Dean Buss and a grandson.
Survivors include a son, Harlan H. Buss, Sioux City, Iowa; 2 daughters, Harriet Schatzberg, Cedar Falls, Iowa and Beverly Marolf, Owatonna, Minnesota; a sister, Leafy Coobs, Klemme; a brother, Robert Wilson, Columbus, Indiana; 6 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.