Representative Henry W. Busch View All Years

HENRY W. BUSCH

Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Henry W. Busch, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Henry W. Busch was born on July 15, 1920 in Bristow, the son of Henry and Bilda Busch. On February 22, 1946 he married Maurine L. Busch, to which union was born one son and one daughter.

A 1937 graduate from Allison High School, he farmed in partnership with his brother George near Allison. He served 36 months in the European Theatre during World War II, during which time he was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Discharged in 1946, he returned to the Allison area and farmed until moving to a farm south of Waverly in 1949. In 1966 he started in the real estate business in the Waverly area and formed Busch-McKee, Inc. Realtors in Waverly in 1971.

Mr. Busch was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Waverly, a member of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Waverly, a member of the Waverly Amvet Post and the Waverly V.F.W. Post, past president of the Waverly Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Bremer, Butler, Chickasaw Board of Realtors, past president of the Bremer County Farm Bureau and a past member of the Waverly Rotary Club.

A Republican, Mr. Busch represented Bremer County in the Sixtieth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second General Assemblies.

Henry W. Busch died on August 11, 1981. Survivors include his wife, Maurine, of Dallas, Texas; son, Paul, of Dallas, Texas; daughter, Beverly Manuel, of Arlington, Texas; three brothers, George, of Allison, Iowa; Marvin, of Waverly, Iowa; and James, of Pollock, Missouri; and two sisters, Margaret Hill of Marion, Iowa and Arlene Riggert of Green Valley, Arizona.

Now therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Henry W. Busch, the state has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this Resolution would express its appreciation of his service.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

RAYMOND LAGESCHULTE

ROBERT RENKEN

WILLIAM H. HARBOR

Committee