Elizabeth Rouyn Busch

Betty was decedent from early English settlers in Glengarry County Ontario. Her father was a WWI veteran and successful prospector developing the Red Lake Mining District north of Lake Superior.

Betty had luxurious early years in Ottawa with servants, Packard cars, and associations with prominent businessmen and politicians. This ended with the Great Depression. In 1935 her family moved to rural Dalhousie Mills, Ontario where she lived an idyllic life.

She was schooled in Ottawa by Catholic nuns, completed grade school in a one room school house, and graduated H.S. in Alexandra Ontario. After graduation Betty

worked in Montreal for Defense Industries Limited supporting the WWII war effort. Betty loved to dance belonging to the social organization Navy House where she danced with service men going to the European War. At war’s end she met a U.S. Army Air Force bomber crewman. After a whirlwind courtship she and Leonard Randall Busch married in Montreal, March 11, 1946.

Betty moved to a wheat farm in southwest Nebraska outside of Venango. As a famer’s wife she raised 4 children, was a member of America Legion Auxiliary, bowled on 3 leagues, and attended her children’s athletic and school events. In 1969 she and Randal moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. She worked for Golden West Nursing Home and with Dr. John O’Neill.

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, sisters Marguerite Piche and Edna Ozoux. She is survived by sons Randy & wife Maggie, Jim & wife Melody, Brian & wife Diane & grandchildren Carrie and Catherine, and daughter Marlene Vera & husband Jose. In Canada she is survived by sisters Ida Cowan, Sylvia Sangster, Diana McLoud, and numerous nieces and nephews.

In 1950 Betty became an American citizen. She was equally proud of England and the crown, her native Canada, and her adoptive United States. She always had a soft spot for war veterans after knowing so many who were wounded or didn’t come back.

She was an ardent Catholic being a member of St. Patrick’s Church in Holyoke, Colorado and St. Joseph’s Church in Fort Collins.

She enjoyed Canada trips for family gatherings and the Glengarry Scottish Highland Games. Betty was close to her Canadian family and made many friends where-ever she lived.

Rosary to be held at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, March 13, 2014 at Allnutt Funeral Service in Fort Collins, CO. Memorial Service, 10:00 a.m., Friday, March 14, 2014 at St. Joe’s Catholic Church, 300 W. Mountain Ave., Fort Collins, CO 80521. A reception at the church will follow the service. Inurnment at 1:00 p.m. at Resthaven Memorial Gardens. Contributions should be made to the American Diabetes Association, in care of Allnutt Funeral Service, 650 W. Drake Road, Fort Collins, Colorado 80526.