Dr. George Mallory Boush, 89, entomologist, passed away June 18, 2015, at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland surrounded by family members. Mr. Boush was buried in Memorial Gardens of St. Peters Episcopal Church in Savannah in a private ceremony.
Dr. Boush was born 1926 in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of George Webb Boush and Eileen Lindsley Boush of Virginia Beach, Virginia and was a descendant of Samuel Boush, the first mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II; then married Sara May Gibbs of Tifton in 1945. After the war ended, he attended Virginia Tech, graduating with a B.S. in three years; then obtained his M.S. and PhD from Ohio State University, majoring in Entomology.
From 1948 to 1956, he served in the United States Naval Reserve division, a medical entomologist and worked for the Rockefeller Foundation agricultural program in Mexico, returning to the University of Kentucky for three years. His entomological work took them to Virginia Tech as a field researcher and finally to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he was a professor in Entomology and eventually chair of the department.
In 1960, as a Smith-Mundt Fellow, he took his family to Baghdad, Iraq for nine months as dean of the College of Agriculture at Abu Graib University. During his tenure at Wisconsin, he and his wife and sometimes his sons, traveled widely, especially to Hawaii for research on mercury contamination in fish.
In 1990, he and Sara retired to Savannah, where he enjoyed fishing, boating, gardening and volunteer work through his church, St. Peter’s Episcopal, which included teaching biology to students of the Bethesda Boys School, the church soup kitchen and even some prison ministry. He and Sara were founding members of St. Peter’s. In 2008, he and his wife moved to Silver Spring, Maryland to be near their daughter.
Dr. Boush is survived by his wife, Sara; three children and their spouses, Carol and Judd Nelson, David Mallory and Dara Boush and George Andrew and Jennifer Boush; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. Sara May is the daughter of the late Ollie and Caroline Gibbs and sister to Wallace (Sara) Gibbs and June (Gibbs) Wiggins of Tifton.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Salvation Army, 11181 Veirs Mill Road, Silver Spring, MD 20909; or Smile Train, www.smiletrain.org.