Bush, Hazel B.

Hazel B. Bush
July 31, 1899-May 19, 1972

Mrs. Hazel B. Bush, 72, of 1324 N. Fifth St., died at 3:20 p.m. Friday in South Bend Osteopathic Hospital after an illness of one week.

A retired employee of Simplicity Pattern Co., Mrs. Bush was born July 31, 1899, in Allegan and had lived her since 1934, coming from Allegan.  On May 1, 1920, in Kalamazoo, she married Leon Bush, who died July 24, 1952. She was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, the American Legion Auxiliary, Disabled American Veteran’s Auxiliary and Four Flags Barracks of Veterans of World War I.

Survivors include two sons, Bernard and Donald Alvin, both of Niles; six daughters, Mrs. Claude Thompson, Mrs. Lester Yehtes, Mrs. Carlotta Gleason, Mrs. Kenneth Walter Sr., and Mrs. Luis Thurston, all of Niles and Mrs. Marjorie Jackson of Ellwood, Ind.; a sister, Mrs. Mildred Murphy of Allegan, 28 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the Pifer funeral Home, with the Rev. Theodore Laesch of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.

Friends may call after 7 tonight at the funeral home.

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