Leon Alvin Bush
June 20, 1900-July 24, 1952
Niles Daily Star, Friday, July 25, 1952; page 2, col. 6, microfilm, Niles District Library
Leon Alvin Bush, 53, died at his home, 122 ½ North Front street, at 12:15 p.m. Thursday.
Funeral services will be held in the Pifer funeral home Monday at 2 p.m., with the Rev. John Carlton, of the Trinity Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in Oak Wood cemetery at Allegan.
Bush was born in Bloomingdale on June 20, 1900. He was employed as a dispatcher for the Harlan Cab company at the time of his death.
Survivors include: his widow, Hazel; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Claude Thompson, of the city, nine children, Mrs. Max Storey, Mrs. Clyde Gleason, Mrs. Marjorie Wissler, Bernath Bush, Bernard Bush, Donald and Bonnie June Bush, all of Niles, Mrs. James Babcock of Bertrand, and Mrs. Ray Tweedy, of Shelbyville, Ind.; ten grandchildren; and three sisters, Mrs. Ella Brainard, of Allegan, and Mrs. Alpha Huntly, of Huntington, Ind.
Reinterred at Silverbrook in 1972.