Lisa Nan Bush

Lisa Bush was born in El Dorado, Kansas on June 17, 1950 and died on July 7, 2024 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. She was the middle child of Tom and Betty Bush. They later moved to Wichita, KS, where she attended North High and excelled in leadership roles, such as Horizon Club and Campfire Girls. She maintained lifelong friends with a group of camp counselors who attended each year at Camp Ko Ha Me.

Upon graduation, Lisa found interest in the health care field working first as a phlebotomist, and then entering the US Army and becoming a practical nurse at the Presidio in San Francisco. She served in troop medical clinics in Ft. Eustis and later at Ft. Gordon. 

She left the Army to work at Gracewood Hospital while attending Augusta College and MCG to earn her BSN in 1983 and return to the Army as an officer in the Army Nurse Corps. Her first assignment was in Oncology at Eisenhower Hospital. While there, she sought out the role of Community Health Nursing and attended the 6AF5 program to work in community health. She was then transferred to Ft Campbell, Ky where she worked with military families after the Gander air disaster there.

She returned to Augusta in 1989 after the death of her father, leaving the Army and working with St Joseph’s Hospice and her spouse, Sandy, in community nursing. She returned to school earning an MSN in Home Health Nursing at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and completing her Masters degree in Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. She then earned her post Masters completion certificate at Georgia Southern University in 1992 to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. In that role she became proficient in Women’s Health in Washington State Prion and also worked in Neurology and Movement Disorders at AU Health before retiring in 2012.

Lisa was an active participant in the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in the Altar Guild and other supporting roles working in the soup kitchen and breakfast team.

She is survived by her Spouse of over 40 years, Sandy and her brother, Larry (Garalyn), his son Todd (Kristine) and their children Maeve, Owen and Franky; his daughter, Tosalyn (Jack) and their children Maya and Beckett; and niece Amy (daughter of sister Barbara who predeceased her) and her children, Avery and Camryn.

She served her God and her Country and those she loved with honor and care and will be missed by all.

A celebration of life and memorial service with military honors will be held at the Episcopal Church of Our Savior, 4227 Columbia Road on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 2:00 PM.

 In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Church of Our Savior and the American Cancer Society in support of research for Pancreatic Cancer.