Barbara Bush Burdsall

Barbara Bush Burdsall, 92, passed away Friday evening, March 24, 2006, at Mount Pleasant Retirement Village where she was a resident for seven years. Fond of saying “I was Barbara Bush before Barbara Bush was Barbara Bush,” she was delivered by an uncle physician on her family’s Fayette County farm. Except for some summers, she lived in Washington Court House, the county seat. Her mother, Imogene Todhunter Bush, was related to author Rex Todhunter Stout, creator of the Nero Wolfe mysteries. Her father, Vernon A. Bush, was a farmer.
A member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, Miss Bush was graduated from Miami University, then taught school for ten years, first in Sandusky, Ohio, then in Middletown at McKinley Junior High School. During World War II she was a volunteer at Middletown Hospital. She was married for over fifty years to John E. Burdsall of the Crystal Tissue Company. They had two children, Carol and John.
A member of the First Presbyterian Church for over fifty years, Mrs. Burdsall supported many activities: Women’s Association, Sunday School, Head Start, and children’s choirs.
Mrs. Burdsall participated in civic activities as well. She was a leader in Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts, was active in the Wilson School PTA, and was a member of the League of Women Voters.
Mrs. Burdsall loved music, art, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and animals, especially cats. Her favorite hymns were “Onward, Christian Soldiers” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Mrs. Burdsall is survived by daughter Carol and son-in-law Roger Elstun of Hampton, Virginia, and son John and daughter-in-law Helen and their children, Jennifer and Joseph of Dayton.
Memorial services will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Mount Pleasant Retirement Village Life Care Fund.

Funeral Home:
Wilson-Schramm-Spaulding
3805 Roosevelt Blvd.
Middletown, OH
US 45044