Extracted from The Baytown Sun (Baytown, TX)
Tuesday, September 2, 1952

Frank A. Busch Dies At 83

Retired Farmer Born At Cedar Bayou

Last rites will be held Wednesday for Frank Anton Busch, 83, lifelong resident of Cedar Bayou. Busch died at 2 p.m. Monday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Eda Donnelly on Highway 146, after a long illness.

A Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Earthman chapel, to be followed by a service at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at the chapel. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic church with Rev. Denis Kennedy, priest, officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Bayou Masonic cemetery under direction of Earthman fune[r]al home.

Busch, a retired farmer, had lived all his life within a few hundred feet of his birthplace in Chambers county. He was the last surviving child of Mr. and Mrs. Celestine Busch, a German immigrant couple who moved to Cedar Bayou soon after their marriage at Galveston in 1856. His first wife, who died in 1907 [sic 1917], was Miss Carrie Sharp, the daughter of another pioneer family of Cedar Bayou. Eleven [sic Two] years after his death, he married Mrs. Madeira Collins of Houston.

Busch operated his Chambers county farm until his health failed about four years ago. He and his wife had lived with their daughter, Mrs. Donnelly, for the past nine months.

Survivors besides his widow, Mrs. Madeira Busch, and his daughter, Mrs. Donnelly, are three stepdaughters, Mrs. Bertha Castle, Mrs. Bessie Lacy and Mrs. Idabelle Adams, all of Houston.

Also surviivng [sic surviving] are five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Roy Donnelly, Charles Donnelly, Earsel Ray Donnelly, Buster Smith, Carl Smith and Ernest Dittman.