LOIS DALE BUSICK MCGUIRE

Dateline/Kingman

Lois Dale Busick McGuire, 90, died June 16, 2019 at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman.

She was born March 26, 1929, in Reno County, Kansas the daughter of Clifford, Sr. and Zena Blew Busick.
Growing up on the family farm between Abbyville and Partridge she graduated from Partridge High School in 1947. She taught school for a year at a rural grade school in Reno County.

Lois was a stay at home mom until 1963 when she began working as a cook for the Utica school district. In 1968 she began working summers as a cook at the Ransom Hospital where she was encouraged to explore the possibility of earning an Assistant Dietician's license. In 1970 she moved to Kingman where she finished her license and worked as an Assistant Dietician at the Kingman Hospital.

In 1983, she moved to Hutchinson to take care of her mother and to work at the Hutchinson Hospital until she retired in 1997. In later years she worked at the Alco Store in South Hutchinson and several other jobs. In 2003 she moved back to Kingman.

Lois loved her five children and worked hard to see that they had all that they needed. She was an active member of the United Methodist Church.

She is survived by three sons and their wives, Terry and Linda, Mike and Sara, David and Cheryl; sister Joyce Jozwiak; seventeen grandchildren; twenty-seven great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son Mark; and a daughter Patricia Ramsey; and a brother Clifford "Pinky" Busick, Jr.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday at the United Methodist, Kingman. Friends may call from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Wednesday at the funeral home with the family present from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Graveside services will be 2:00 p.m., Thursday at the Abbyville Cemetery, Abbyville, Kansas.

Memorials may be made with the Kingman United Methodist Church in care of the funeral home.