Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Groesbeck Journal - Dec. 30, 2010 issue


Arthur Daniel Busby, Sr.

The Angelic Hosts came for A. D. Busby, Sr., 91 on Saturday, December 18, 2010 in 
the Parkview Regional Hospital, Mexia among devoted family and loving friends. 
Funeral Services were held Wednesday, December 22, at Moore’s Angelic Funeral 
Home, with Cleo Phillips, officiating and interment was in the Grove Island 
Cemetery in Teague with Full Military Funeral Honors by The Ft. Hood U.S. Army 
Troop. The Army Troop also served as pallbearers.

Mr. Busby was born October 10, 1919 in the Furney Richardson Community of 
Freestone County, and attended the public schools there. He married Joyce G. 
Phillips in Teague and had been a member of the Ford Chapel Primitive Baptist 
Church in Mexia.

He retired after more than 30 years in the U.S. Army. After retirement, he worked 
in the Food Service Department of Mexia State School. He was married to Oillie 
Fay Warren Busby at the time of his death. His hobbies were hunting and fishing 
and tinkering with electricity.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Jessie and Roberta Means Busby; three 
brothers: R.C., Joe and Melvin Busby; a Sister, Ava Busby; a daughter, Brenda 
Busby and a son, Billie Roy High.

He is survived by his wife, Ollie Fay Busby, Mexia; sons: John E. Carter and 
wife, Katie, Teague; Arthur D. Busby, Jr and wife, Ann, Dallas; daughter: Portia 
Lindsey and friend, Majoree Banks, Jr,, Teague; stepdaughter, Eula Faye Pruitt 
and husband, Don, Dallas; 8 grandchildren; 30 great grandchildren; nieces, 
nephews and other relatives and friends.

Moore’s Angelic Funeral Home 406 Monroe Street, Teague, Texas served the Busby 
Family.