Louise Bush

Louise Bush, of Indianapolis, Indiana passed away on her 92nd birthday, February 26, 2014. She was born in Indianapolis to Tommie F. and Mattie Belle Shirrell McCloud. She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Orville Bush in 1997. Surviving to cherish her memory are her daughters, Judy (Jerald) Parmer, Lynnette Bush Berry and Carol (Tom) Mayer, step-children, Helen Reynolds and Ivan Bush, her brother, Robert McCloud, nine grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren. She retired from Western Electric, was a member of Trinity Wesleyan Church and was a devoted Christian. Louise was the middle of nine surviving children: Lorene, Luedna, Lillard, Gracie, Louise, Cloudy, Donald, Robert, and Betty. Robert is her only surviving sibling. As the story goes, Louise was quite the "looker" and had plenty of interest from the boys, some of whom thought she looked just like that pretty new actress in Hollywood, Jane Wyman. Later in life, she'd admit that she enjoyed the attention, but choosing was difficult. There was this one young man who had asked her to marry him; she said "No, but thank you for asking." But then he did something she wasn't expecting. He cried, so she married him. That marriage brought Judith LouAnn and Carol Louise into the world. Raised in the First Church of the Nazarene, Louise was baptized as a young child and never wavered from her deep faith in Jesus Christ. With the trials and tribulations that come with life, Louise always held tight to her belief that God has a plan for everyone. When her first marriage ended, she waited twelve years before marrying a man she met in church, Royal Orville Bush. He rescued her and her two daughters and carried them off to the suburbs of the north side of Indianapolis. In 1960 an angel, Joyce Lynnette Bush, was born. Louise's family was now complete: three daughters (Judy, Carol, Lynnette), two step-sons (Ivan, Dean) and a lovely and sweet step-daughter (Helen). Life was good...until In the early nineties Orville had a stroke which would eventually take his life in August, 1997. During his recuperation, a friend of Carol's (Harold Clevenger) agreed to come to Louise and Orville's home to help with Orville's care, but for only two weeks or until the family could find someone else. That was 1994 and this amazing and incredible man never left. Taking care of Orville first and then Louise, Harold has become a beloved family member. From April 2004 to May 2010, when Louise entered Kindred Transitional Care, Louise had needed 24/7 care. Harold left his life behind and dedicated everything he had (and more) to the care of his best friend, Harriett Louise Bush. There is nothing he would not do for her. When she entered Kindred, he came to the nursing home every day, making the 30+ mile trip on dangerous country roads until the winter of 2014 made those roads impassible. She was his purpose, his reason for getting up in the morning; she was his love. Her family is forever indebted to this one-in-a-trillion man. She was surrounded by her family, Harold and Harold's daughter Penny (who drove three hours round trip every week to see Louise) and the Kindred Staff who had fallen in love with this little cracker jack of a woman when she passed at 9:30a.m. on her birthday. Viewing Friday 4 to 8 at Flanner Buchanan on East Washington Street. Funeral 11 on Saturday. Go past the tall atrium with the chandelier to the end of the building. Look for double blue doors.