The Bushong Bulletin Fall 1994 Volume 10, Number 3 Page 35 Editor: Carol Willsey Bell OTTO C. BUSHONG. Homer: Otto Conrad "Connie" Bushong, 70, of Homer, died Tuesday Jan. 28, 1992, at home after a long illness. Mr. Bushong was born Dec. 26, 1921, in Demont, Ind. to Kearney H. & Della (Radle) Bushong. He spent most of his life in Calhoun County and attended Wilder Creek School/ He served in the Army during World War II in the Pacific Theater and received a Purple Heart. He was a farm laborer before the war. After the war, he was a supervisor at Union Steel Products Co. in Albion for more than 40 years. After his retirement, he worked for Pine Knoll Nursery in Coldwater for eight years, retiring in 1989. He was a life member of the National Rifle Association and the Wilder Creek Conservation Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, landscaping and growing trees from seed. He married the former Reatha Bleam on May 6, 1944, in grand Rapids. She survives. Also surviving are a son, Conrad Bushong of LaOtto, Ind.; daughters, Penny Baird of Union City and Fraya Weiss of Homer; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a brother, Clarence Bushong of Eckford; and sisters, Ruth Tobias of Albion and Myona Lapland of Marshall. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Craig and Kearney David; and two sisters, Beatrice O'Dell and Marjorie Bushong. Services 11 am Friday in Fairview Cemetery, Homer, with Rev. Ron Mills officiating. Memorials: Good Samaritan Hospice Care Inc. (Battlefield Creek Mich: BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER, 29 Jan 1992) (submitted by Rick Gamber, Lansing, MI) NOTE: Left off Rick Gamber's street address which was included. ------------- Copied and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong