Obit: Bush, Hilda Leola (1929 - 2020)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Bush, Bartsch, Eytzen, Lindgren, Schnabel, Erickson, Larson

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 9/09/2020

Bush, Hilda Leola (30 December 1929 – 11 August 2020)

Hilda Leola Bush, 90, passed away at Maranatha Village in Springfield, MO, on Aug. 11, 2020.

Graveside service was held on Sunday, Aug. 22, 2020, with a nephew, Rev. Dale Eytzen officiating, with burial in the Neillsville City Cemetery beside her husband, Rev. Darrel R. Bush, who passed away Nov. 9, 2003. On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, a Memorial Service was held at the Hilltop Community Church, Neillsville, with Rev. Charles Bush of Dillon, MT officiating. A luncheon was served at the church after the service.

Hilda Leola Eytzen was born on December 30, 1929 to Jacob and Katherine (Bartsch) Eytzen, on a farm in Bingham Lake, MN. She attended school in Bowesmont, ND and went on to North Central College in Minneapolis, MN. She then worked in Kaukauna, graduating from a 3-year nursing program in Rochester, MN, then worked for many years as an RN. She was a pianist and played accordion also.

She is survived by in-laws Wava Larson, Alma Center, Bonnie Schnabel, Neillsville, Lola Lindgren, Owen, Wanda (Gilbert) Erickson, Medford, and Rev. Charles (Dorann) Bush, Dillion, MT and many nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death are two daughters, her parents Jacob and Katherine Eytzen, a sister, Phyllis, four brothers-in-law Dale Bush, Kenneth Larson, Delbert Schnabel, and Jerry Lindgren.

She met Darrel Bush in Marshfield at the Assembly of God Church where her father was pastor. On November 23, 1962, she married Rev. Darrel R. Bush, in Waupaca at the Assembly of God Church. They served churches at West Beaver Chapel, Loyal, Owen Gospel Tabernacle, Tomahawk Assembly of God, Whitewater Assembly of God and lastly for 22 years at Central Assembly of God in Milwaukee and then retired to a Christian retirement community, Maranatha Village in Springfield, MO.