HELEN MALINDA BUSCH was born in 1913 in Elmont. She married John Henry Blesi on 21 May 1938 at Spring Bluff, Franklin County John was born on 3 February 1916 in Spring Bluff and his parents were Henry Peter Blesi and Elizabeth Catherine Daniken. John died on 16 April 1969 of kidney disease and is buried in IOOF Memorial Cemetery in Sullivan, Missouri.
According to the 1930 census, Helen M. Busch, age 16, boarded with a private family in Sullivan, apparently so she could attend school in Sullivan.
Helen Busch Blesi’s memories:
As I recall, when Ernst Brueseke died, Grandma Katherine Brueseke continued to live at her home with one daughter, Sophie Charlotte. Sophie’s plans were to go to Nyack, New York to study to be a missionary, which she did and at that time, Grandma Brueseke came to live with us. It seems I was just starting school, first grade. Our farm, the Busch farm, was adjoining their farm. Uncle Frank Brueseke’s (the only boy in the Brueseke family) farm joined ours on the other side. He and Aunt Ida had two sons, Bill and Hadley. Hadley and I were near the same age and walked to school together every day. We became close cousins. In 1927 when I was in 8th grade we moved to Spring Bluff when Dad bought the Spring Bluff store. I remember Grandma Katherine thought it her job to wash the dishes. She was helpful to Mom since they bought the store, Mom helped a lot there. We all did. I remember Lowell and me taking care of it for a week while Mom, Dad, Von and Grace were on vacation.
I was the third child born to George and Malinda Brueseke Busch, 1913. Von Gustave and Nadine Kathryn are older. I was born on the Busch farm near Elmont, Missouri. We lived there until 1927 when my dad bought the Spring Bluff Store from Otto Weirich and moved his family to Spring Bluff, Missouri. I was in the eighth grade of school then. That was before the consolidated school was started at Spring Bluff. The next year my brother, Von, drove my sister and me to Sullivan High School. We all four graduated from Sullivan. Sometimes we stayed in town and did what we called light housekeeping during the week.
I married in 1938 and moved to Greenville, Illinois where we lived and raised our family until moving back to Missouri in 1945. We built a new house on Highway 185 where we lived for many years and I still live. John died young in 1969. We raised our family of eight children there. They all married and we have 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. I’m very proud of our family. God has been good to our family in many ways and we have tried to raise them to know Jesus, our Savior, so we will meet and be together one day in heaven. I am almost 93 years of age and God has been good to me.
We’re expecting the whole family of over 60 to be together September this year. I hear all are trying to make it.
According to the 1930 census, Helen M. Busch, age 16, boarded with a private family in Sullivan, apparently so she could attend school in Sullivan.
Helen Busch Blesi’s memories:
As I recall, when Ernst Brueseke died, Grandma Katherine Brueseke continued to live at her home with one daughter, Sophie Charlotte. Sophie’s plans were to go to Nyack, New York to study to be a missionary, which she did and at that time, Grandma Brueseke came to live with us. It seems I was just starting school, first grade. Our farm, the Busch farm, was adjoining their farm. Uncle Frank Brueseke’s (the only boy in the Brueseke family) farm joined ours on the other side. He and Aunt Ida had two sons, Bill and Hadley. Hadley and I were near the same age and walked to school together every day. We became close cousins. In 1927 when I was in 8th grade we moved to Spring Bluff when Dad bought the Spring Bluff store. I remember Grandma Katherine thought it her job to wash the dishes. She was helpful to Mom since they bought the store, Mom helped a lot there. We all did. I remember Lowell and me taking care of it for a week while Mom, Dad, Von and Grace were on vacation.
I was the third child born to George and Malinda Brueseke Busch, 1913. Von Gustave and Nadine Kathryn are older. I was born on the Busch farm near Elmont, Missouri. We lived there until 1927 when my dad bought the Spring Bluff Store from Otto Weirich and moved his family to Spring Bluff, Missouri. I was in the eighth grade of school then. That was before the consolidated school was started at Spring Bluff. The next year my brother, Von, drove my sister and me to Sullivan High School. We all four graduated from Sullivan. Sometimes we stayed in town and did what we called light housekeeping during the week.
I married in 1938 and moved to Greenville, Illinois where we lived and raised our family until moving back to Missouri in 1945. We built a new house on Highway 185 where we lived for many years and I still live. John died young in 1969. We raised our family of eight children there. They all married and we have 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. I’m very proud of our family. God has been good to our family in many ways and we have tried to raise them to know Jesus, our Savior, so we will meet and be together one day in heaven. I am almost 93 years of age and God has been good to me.
We’re expecting the whole family of over 60 to be together September this year. I hear all are trying to make it.
HELEN MALINDA BUSCH was born in 1913 in Elmont. She married John Henry Blesi on 21 May 1938 at Spring Bluff, Franklin County John was born on 3 February 1916 in Spring Bluff and his parents were Henry Peter Blesi and Elizabeth Catherine Daniken. John died on 16 April 1969 of kidney disease and is buried in IOOF Memorial Cemetery in Sullivan, Missouri.
According to the 1930 census, Helen M. Busch, age 16, boarded with a private family in Sullivan, apparently so she could attend school in Sullivan.
Helen Busch Blesi’s memories:
As I recall, when Ernst Brueseke died, Grandma Katherine Brueseke continued to live at her home with one daughter, Sophie Charlotte. Sophie’s plans were to go to Nyack, New York to study to be a missionary, which she did and at that time, Grandma Brueseke came to live with us. It seems I was just starting school, first grade. Our farm, the Busch farm, was adjoining their farm. Uncle Frank Brueseke’s (the only boy in the Brueseke family) farm joined ours on the other side. He and Aunt Ida had two sons, Bill and Hadley. Hadley and I were near the same age and walked to school together every day. We became close cousins. In 1927 when I was in 8th grade we moved to Spring Bluff when Dad bought the Spring Bluff store. I remember Grandma Katherine thought it her job to wash the dishes. She was helpful to Mom since they bought the store, Mom helped a lot there. We all did. I remember Lowell and me taking care of it for a week while Mom, Dad, Von and Grace were on vacation.
I was the third child born to George and Malinda Brueseke Busch, 1913. Von Gustave and Nadine Kathryn are older. I was born on the Busch farm near Elmont, Missouri. We lived there until 1927 when my dad bought the Spring Bluff Store from Otto Weirich and moved his family to Spring Bluff, Missouri. I was in the eighth grade of school then. That was before the consolidated school was started at Spring Bluff. The next year my brother, Von, drove my sister and me to Sullivan High School. We all four graduated from Sullivan. Sometimes we stayed in town and did what we called light housekeeping during the week.
I married in 1938 and moved to Greenville, Illinois where we lived and raised our family until moving back to Missouri in 1945. We built a new house on Highway 185 where we lived for many years and I still live. John died young in 1969. We raised our family of eight children there. They all married and we have 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. I’m very proud of our family. God has been good to our family in many ways and we have tried to raise them to know Jesus, our Savior, so we will meet and be together one day in heaven. I am almost 93 years of age and God has been good to me.
We’re expecting the whole family of over 60 to be together September this year. I hear all are trying to make it.
According to the 1930 census, Helen M. Busch, age 16, boarded with a private family in Sullivan, apparently so she could attend school in Sullivan.
Helen Busch Blesi’s memories:
As I recall, when Ernst Brueseke died, Grandma Katherine Brueseke continued to live at her home with one daughter, Sophie Charlotte. Sophie’s plans were to go to Nyack, New York to study to be a missionary, which she did and at that time, Grandma Brueseke came to live with us. It seems I was just starting school, first grade. Our farm, the Busch farm, was adjoining their farm. Uncle Frank Brueseke’s (the only boy in the Brueseke family) farm joined ours on the other side. He and Aunt Ida had two sons, Bill and Hadley. Hadley and I were near the same age and walked to school together every day. We became close cousins. In 1927 when I was in 8th grade we moved to Spring Bluff when Dad bought the Spring Bluff store. I remember Grandma Katherine thought it her job to wash the dishes. She was helpful to Mom since they bought the store, Mom helped a lot there. We all did. I remember Lowell and me taking care of it for a week while Mom, Dad, Von and Grace were on vacation.
I was the third child born to George and Malinda Brueseke Busch, 1913. Von Gustave and Nadine Kathryn are older. I was born on the Busch farm near Elmont, Missouri. We lived there until 1927 when my dad bought the Spring Bluff Store from Otto Weirich and moved his family to Spring Bluff, Missouri. I was in the eighth grade of school then. That was before the consolidated school was started at Spring Bluff. The next year my brother, Von, drove my sister and me to Sullivan High School. We all four graduated from Sullivan. Sometimes we stayed in town and did what we called light housekeeping during the week.
I married in 1938 and moved to Greenville, Illinois where we lived and raised our family until moving back to Missouri in 1945. We built a new house on Highway 185 where we lived for many years and I still live. John died young in 1969. We raised our family of eight children there. They all married and we have 20 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. I’m very proud of our family. God has been good to our family in many ways and we have tried to raise them to know Jesus, our Savior, so we will meet and be together one day in heaven. I am almost 93 years of age and God has been good to me.
We’re expecting the whole family of over 60 to be together September this year. I hear all are trying to make it.
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