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UIIWinteersor the ig Au-illview Han-, Mrs.two Hoff-senior Dspital Henry eology others, irg at-philus g, andreiauves apparently were noi alarmed about them.TOWN NATIVEWILL BE 100ON WEDNESDAYlesda.v uneral Camp Swen-theran al will ery.f; Club ly He-; Mon-y Inn. Merlin wereMiss Mary M. Bushman, a Gettysburg native, is remarkably spry for a soon-to-be centenarian. When she celebrates her hundredth birthday tomorrow, she will probably enjoy it more than anyone.Miss Bushman is the eldest of 12 children in a family which in-cuded the late Francis X. Bushman, one of the first big movie idols during this century’s Teens and early Twenties. She and her brother. Samuel M. Bushman, the surviving members of the clan, both .show traces of the profile which sent women swooning.But fame and fortune were things Miss Bushman wished more 1A for hdr younger brothers and sis-1 \ ters than herself. She regards heryears simply as “a respectable. I decent Christian life.|tl] VISITED ROME■■■* “I never got around very much.” she says. “School and church was all I knew.” She traveled to Rome in 1923, when her brother “Xavier” was playing Messala in the first “Ben Hur” movie, but she spent the rest of is Me-1 her adult life at home in Balti-ee in more.what is will ly Re-ik said j pro-ly by Free-jstions ibserv-y are using lave a o date iniver-ificant ganize itriotic young with i, and, in the eunionLee is 1)She was born on Friday, July 24, 1868. in Gettysburg, Pa., where her father, John H. Bushman, had a drygoods and notions store. Her mother, the former Mary J. Nor-beck, had been born in Baltimore. Mrs. Bushman had gone to Gettysburg when her father, John Norbeck, who manufactured saddle trees, had been given 24 hoursto leave Baltimore because of his•antislavery opinions.OLDEST CHILDMiss Bushman went to Baltimore when she was five years old. The family moved to a house on the northwest corner of Ar-gyle and Mosher Sts., where most of the children were reared. As the oldest child, Miss Bushman helped to bring up the 11 other children.She says that no one in the family was surprised at the subsequent career of Francis X. “He (Continued On Page 3)Frar ingst Teeti Smit BUII Ch Guy Fran C. P turf, PUB All Carl Ruhr FIN/ He Wilb Phili Char JOIE He Dr. lozie John son, ter,S’NE marl after ing ; of th Th was ket Lo near cline bouns(LeWPH Unio kia’s meet satel and out i But that stren kia's man Arm Th from talks to s politl a coi vak Tb meel butmiffh
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Jul 23, 1968
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