Eugene Prescott Bushnell was born August 13, 1908, on a farm near Ashland, Nebraska, to Arno and Abby (Willis) Bushnell.

He grew up in the Plattsmouth, Nebraska, area and graduated from Plattsmouth High School.  He then attended Coyne Electrical School in Chicago after which he returend to the Plattsmouth area where he worked in a canning factory.  While at the canning factory, he met and later married Lova Sell on December 10, 1939, at Plattsmouth.

He continued at the factory for a short time, then during World War II, he worked at the bomber plant at Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska.  After the war he owned and operated a radio repair shop in Plattsmouth.  He then attended Grace College in Omaha, Nebrask, for two years.

Pastor Eugene Bushnell became a missionary in the American Sunday School Union.  He worked as a missionary in Mitchell, South Dakota, in 1953 and in 1954 was transferred to Winner, South Dakota, where he worked until 1960 when they moved to Kadoka.  He continued his missionary work in Kadoka until retiring in 1973.  While in Kadoka he held as many as 31 Vacation Bible Schools, 12 Sunday Schools, and ran as many as four summer camps in a year.

After retirement, they moved to Harrisburg, Nebraska, where he was church pastor for two and a half years before moving back to Kadoka, where he served as associate pastor for 12 years at the Presbyterian Church.

He was a member of the Kadoka Senior Citizens, and had received the Citizen of the Year Award for his community work by the Masonic Lodge of Kadoka.

Grateful for having shared his life are his wife, Lova Bushnell of Kadoka; a son and his wife, David and Sharon Bushnell of Kennebec, South Dakota; three daughters and their husbands, Mary and Larry Beckwith of Cedar Falls, Iowa, Susan and Dennis Schultz of Pardeeville, Wisconsin, and Kathy and George Nite of Amarillo, Texas; 12 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother, Donald Bushnell of Plattsmouth, Nebraska; a sister, Gladys Glaze of Plattsmouth, Nebraska; and a host of other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother in infancy.

A memorial is established.

Services
Thursday, November 14, 1996
10:00 a.m.
City Auditorium
Kadoka, South Dakota

Officiating
Reverend Gary McCubbin

Eulogy
Harry Merchen, Jr.

Music
Ruth McCubbin - Pianist
Pat Porch & Jeanne Merchen - Vocalists

Ushers
Lyle Stevens - Harry Merchen, Jr.
Frank Bauman - Tom Grimes

Active Pallbearers
Mike Schultz - Marc Schultz
Eric Peters - Ken Toews
Dean Davis - Stephen Pizzini
Bob Fanning - Don Heck

Honorary Pallbearers
All relatives and friends in attendance

Interment
Kadoka Cemetery
Kadoka, South Dakota