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Frank Anton Busch

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Frank Anton Busch

Birth
Cedar Bayou, Harris County, Texas, USA
Death
1 Sep 1952 (aged 83)
Cedar Bayou, Harris County, Texas, USA
Burial
Baytown, Harris County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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OBITUARY - The Baytown (TX) Sun - Tuesday, 2 Sep 1952

Last rites will be held Wednesday for Frank Anton Busch, 83, lifelong resident of Cedar Bayou. Busch died at 2 p.m. Monday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eda Donnelly on Highway 146, after a long illness.

A Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Earthman chapel, to be followed by a service at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic church with Rev. Denis Kennedy, priest, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Bayou Masonic cemetery under direction of Earthman funeral home.

Busch, a retired farmer, had lived all his life within a few hundred feet of his birthplace in Chambers county. He was the last surviving child of Mr. and Mrs. Celestine Busch, a German immigrant couple who moved to Cedar Bayou soon after their marriage at Galveston in 1856. His first wife, who died in 1907, was Miss Carrie Shairp, the daughter of another pioneer family of Cedar Bayou. Eleven years after her death, he married Mrs. Madeira Collins of Houston.

Busch operated his Chambers county farm until his health failed about four years ago. He and his wife had lived with their daughter, Mrs. Donnelly, for the past nine months.

Survivors besides this widow, Mrs. Madeira Busch and his daughter, Mrs. Donnelly, are three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Castle, Mrs. Bessie Lacy and Mrs. Idabelle Adams, all of Houston.

Also surviving are five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Roy Donnelly, Charles Donnelly, Earsel Ray Donnelly, Buster Smith, Carl Smith and Ernest Dittman
OBITUARY - The Baytown (TX) Sun - Tuesday, 2 Sep 1952

Last rites will be held Wednesday for Frank Anton Busch, 83, lifelong resident of Cedar Bayou. Busch died at 2 p.m. Monday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eda Donnelly on Highway 146, after a long illness.

A Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Earthman chapel, to be followed by a service at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic church with Rev. Denis Kennedy, priest, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Bayou Masonic cemetery under direction of Earthman funeral home.

Busch, a retired farmer, had lived all his life within a few hundred feet of his birthplace in Chambers county. He was the last surviving child of Mr. and Mrs. Celestine Busch, a German immigrant couple who moved to Cedar Bayou soon after their marriage at Galveston in 1856. His first wife, who died in 1907, was Miss Carrie Shairp, the daughter of another pioneer family of Cedar Bayou. Eleven years after her death, he married Mrs. Madeira Collins of Houston.

Busch operated his Chambers county farm until his health failed about four years ago. He and his wife had lived with their daughter, Mrs. Donnelly, for the past nine months.

Survivors besides this widow, Mrs. Madeira Busch and his daughter, Mrs. Donnelly, are three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Castle, Mrs. Bessie Lacy and Mrs. Idabelle Adams, all of Houston.

Also surviving are five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Roy Donnelly, Charles Donnelly, Earsel Ray Donnelly, Buster Smith, Carl Smith and Ernest Dittman


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