Its my aunts birthday today and without a car i ran to the nearest grocery store (only a little over a mile away. im a hero, yes. but no need to brag) and 7 year old 2nd cousin Matthew (aunts grandchildren) is talking to his mom on the phone and told the following story (direct quote. no words changed):
“um. and MOM: Richard said he was going for a jog. like how he does with his shirt off and his ipod. and guess what?? he SAID he was doing a jog, but he wasnt REALLY. he was at the store. and he got flowers for grammas birthday. and guess what? there are some of the kind that YOU like in them. –hey, can i talk to dad? [pause]… DAD. um. guess what? Richard said he was on a jog but it was really a surprise for Gramma and when he came back he had a variety of flowers.” — lol. A variety of flowers?? Who says that? This dude…
ean Margaret Bushnell, 94, was born in Fargo, North Dakota, August 14, 1917, and died in Sunnyvale, California after a brief illness. In 1927, Jean moved to Los Angeles with her parents Isabel and Harry Hansen and her siblings Dorothy and Neal. She attended St. Agnes High School, and while working on a high school play, met and later married Mart Petty Bushnell, an actor and movie extra on loan from the Pasadena Playhouse. While he pursued his life-long career with the Boy Scouts of America Health and Safety Division, Jean raised their ten children and began a long career as a porcelain artist and teacher, winning numerous prizes and accolades. Her career and her works were the cover story in a recent International Porcelain Painter’s Association magazine. The subjects of her paintings were flowers and portraits. She was preceded in death by Mart her beloved husband of forty-five years in 1981 and in the same year, her darling grandchild Matthew Cloonan Bushnell. She is survived by all of her ten children
