Wanda Elizabeth Bush (born Seely)
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Gender: Female
Date of Birth: August 19, 1927
Date of Death: January 2, 2020
Birth Place: Dalhart, TX
Death Place: Amarillo, TX
Wanda Elizabeth (Seely) Bush
Wanda Elizabeth (Seely) Bush, 92, of Sedan, New Mexico died January 2, 2020. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Central Time on Friday, January 10, 2020 at the First Baptist Church in Texline, Texas. Burial will follow in the Texline Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton, New Mexico. Hass Funeral Directors, Inc.
Published in Amarillo Globe-News from January 6 to January 7, 2020
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Wanda Elizabeth Bush of Sedan, New Mexico
August 19, 1927 – January 2, 2020
Wanda Elizabeth (Seely) Bush, age 92, died on Thursday, January 2, 2020 in Amarillo, Texas.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Central Time on Friday, January 10, 2020 at the First Baptist Church in Texline, Texas with Rev. Ron Lambert officiating. Burial will follow in the Texline Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton, New Mexico.
Wanda Elizabeth (Seely) Bush was born on August 19, 1927, in Dalhart, Texas to Alvay Burton Seely and Bonnie Bessie (West) Seely. She attended school in Sedan and then graduated from Clayton High School. Wanda married John Joseph “Jodie” Bush on November 11, 1942 in Boise City, Oklahoma and he preceded her in death on August 4, 2009. Wanda and Jodie farmed until 1954 when they moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico and attended New Mexico Highlands University and earned her Bachelors Degree in Business Education in 1957 graduating Summa Cum Laude. They moved to Tucumcari, New Mexico where Wanda they both taught for 23 years, Wanda taught sixth grade and Jr. High English and Math and high school English and Business subjects. She received her Masters Degree in 1968 from Eastern New Mexico University. They retired in 1980 and moved to Eagle Nest, New Mexico and then returned to Sedan, New Mexico in 1985 for health reasons. Wanda accepted Christ as a child and was baptized in a tank near Sedan. She has been a member of the First Baptist Church in Texline since 1993 and served as co-director of vacation bible school for several years and co-teacher of the adult Sunday school class. She loved God, her family and friends and will be sorely missed by all. In addition to her parents and husband, Wanda was preceded in death by two daughters, Nancy Griffin and Wanda Grubb, and by 2 grandsons-in-law, Ozzie Sakinini and Derek Conrad.
SURVIVORS:
1 DAUGHTER: Carolyn Iceneder of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1 SON: Larry Bush of Halfway, Oregon.
9 GRANDCHILDREN: Shelley Sakinini, Timmy Rinestine and his wife Sheena, David Grubb and his wife Jen, Karen Michael and her husband Bryan, Donita Correra and her husband Marc, Sherry Conrad, Eddie Iceneder and his wife Sarah, Kelli Paddock and her husband Blaine and Elizabeth Roe and her husband Ryan.
21 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren.
Published online by Hass Funeral Directors
