{"id":131,"date":"2017-03-02T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=131"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:47:09","slug":"augustus-l-gus-bushee-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Augustus L. &#8220;Gus&#8221; Bushee Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the August 17, 1994 issue of The Country Chronicle<\/p>\n<p>Enfield, N.H. \u2013 August L. \u201cGus\u201d Bushee, Jr. 61, died Friday morning, August 5, 1994 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.\u00a0 He was born in Lebanon, N.H. May 21, 1933, the son of Augustus L. &amp; Minnie (Follansbee) Bushee Sr.\u00a0 He had been a lifelong resident of the Upper Valley and was a graduate of Lebanon High School (Class of \u201951).\u00a0 \u201cGus\u201d was a U.S. Air Force Veteran of the Korean Conflict.\u00a0 For many years he was employed as manager of KLEEN Drycleaners &amp; Linen Services.\u00a0 He was an honorary life member of the Lebanon Lodge of Elks #2099.\u00a0 Mr. Bushee was a devoted and active member and Lay Leader of the Enfield United Methodist Church.\u00a0 His favorite hobby was frog collectables of which he had over 200 pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Friends called at the Ricker Funeral Home in Lebanon on Monday evening from 7-9 p.m.\u00a0 Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m. in the Enfield United Methodist Church.\u00a0 The Rev. Lorene Eldredge officiated.\u00a0 Burial followed in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Enfield.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions should be made to: The Norris Cotton Cancer Ctr., DHMC, 1 Medical Ctr. Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756 or to The Enfield United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 463 Canaan, NH 03741.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include: his wife, Elizabeth L. (Quimby) Bushee of Enfield; his mother, Minnie Bushee of Enfield; a daughter, Sherri L. Bushee of St. Albans Bay, Vt.; a sister, Elaine Dionne of Lebanon and several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.\u00a0 He was preceeded in death by his father, August L. Bushee, Sr.<\/p>\n<p>The Ricker Funeral Home of Lebanon was in charge of arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the August 17, 1994 issue of The Country Chronicle Enfield, N.H. \u2013 August L. \u201cGus\u201d Bushee, Jr. 61, died Friday morning, August 5, 1994 at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.\u00a0 He was born in Lebanon, N.H. May 21, 1933, the son of Augustus L. &amp; Minnie (Follansbee) Bushee Sr.\u00a0 He had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/?p=131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Augustus L. &#8220;Gus&#8221; Bushee Jr.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,6],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bushee","tag-enfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canaanlibrary.org\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}