BUSH, Mark
Source: Covington Friend Wednesday, July 2, 1975
Steve Abbott, Rt. 1, West Lebanon, who was critically injured in an automobile accident Friday, June 13, became the third to die as a result of that crash. He died 3:47 a.m. Friday at Lake View Memorial Hospital in Danville, Ill.
Killed in the crash were his mother, Mrs. Audrey L. Abbott, and Mark Bush, Rt. 1, West Lebanon.
Also injured and still listed in “serious” condition at Burnham City Hospital at Champaign, Ill., were Michael Gooden, 20, West Lebanon and Bruce E. Powell, 20, Rt. 2, Williamsport. Powell is hospitalized in the trauma section and Gooden on the neuro floor.
Services for Abbott are pending at the West Funeral Home at Oneida, Tenn.
The Abbott family was residents of Tennessee, then lived at Muncie for 14 years before moving to the West Lebanon area recently. J. B. Abbott, father and husband of the accident victims, is employed at Harrison Steel Casting Co. -s
Source: Covington Friend Wednesday, June 18, 1975
Two people were killed and three remain in “serious” condition following a head-on crash on a rural Warren County road near Marshfield Friday night.
Dead are Mrs. Audery Lee Abbott, 42, Rt. 2, Williamsport, and Mark Bush, 20, Rt. 1, West Lebanon. Suffering extensive injuries and listed as “serious” in the intensive care unit of Burnham City Hospital at Champaign, Ill., are Michael Gooden, 20, West Lebanon, and Bruce E. Powell, 20, Rt. 2, Williamsport. Mrs. Abbot’s son., Stevie L. Abbot, is in “serious” condition at the intensive care unit of Lake View Memorial Hospital at Danville, Ill., where he reportedly underwent surgery on a ruptured bladder. State police said Stevie Abbott was driving east on the Marshfield-West Lebanon blacktop in southwest Warren County at 9:25 p.m. Friday, and Powell was driving west on that road. For some reason the Powell car, with passengers Gooden and Bush crossed the centerline and struck the Abbot vehicle head-on.
Source: Covington Friend Wednesday, June 18, 1975
Services for Mark Douglas Bush were held Monday afternoon at the Fisher Funeral Home in West Lebanon with Rev. William Thompson officiating. Burial was at West Lebanon Cemetery.
He was born at Danville, Ill., and was a life resident of the West Lebanon and Attica areas. He was a 1973 graduate of Attica High School and was employed as a construction worker for Pentryn Systems, Inc., of Willoby, Ohio. He attended the Marshfield Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Peggy Moody of West Lebanon; his father, John R. Bush, Lafayette; three brothers, John W. Bush, Williamsport and Robert M. Bush and David S. Moody, both of West Lebanon; one stepbrother, James R. Bush of Lafayette; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Marie Sargent, West Lebanon and maternal great grandmother, Mrs. William Sargent of Indianapolis.