Dr. Catherine Burns Lush of Glencoe, Minnesota, formerly of Albert Lea and Excelsior Minnesota Lake Havasu City and Cottonwood, Arizona, passed away on Monday, June 13, 2011 at home. She was 94 years old.
Catherine was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota on November 18, 1916 to Dr. Hiram Burns and Corinne S. Burns. She graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1933 and Wellesley College, MA in 1938. She attended the University of MN Medical School, graduating in 1944. She was in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, stationed at Great Lakes Naval Station in Chicago, for 18 months. She practiced medicine in Duluth, Fairbanks, AK, and Albert Lea. In 1958, she married Clifford Lush and they moved to Tonka Bay, Minnesota where she worked at the University of Minnesota Health Service and in the public schools.
In the early 1940s, Catherine bought property on Gunflint Lake and built a cabin there. She remained a lifelong summer resident. In the early days, she helped with emergency medical treatments as there was no hospital in Grand Marais.
In 1974, she and her husband decided to spend their winters in Arizona. She lived for 10 years in Cottonwood. In 2008, she returned to Minnesota to live with her daughters.
She was a pilot, a world traveler, a painter and a musician. She saw goodness and beauty in all things.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, and her husband. She is survived by her daughters Barbara Henderson and Betty Robson of Glencoe, stepdaughter Judy Johnston of Spokane, Washington, sisters Alice Gilmore (Orv) of Cottonwood, Arizona and Margery Carlson of Bloomfield, Connecticut, as well as numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews and friends.
Join us to remember Catherine at 10 a.m. on Sept 5 at the Gunflint Lodge Conference Room.
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