John Frushour

(Written by John Frushour, to be published verbatim at his request)

John was the son of James A. and Joyce Gates Frushour. He was a 1950 graduate of Lucerne High School; he was a Latin Mass altar boy at St Elizabeth Catholic Church in Lucerne.

A 1944 graduate of the Culver Military Academy's, Summer Woodcraft, where he was a member of the World-famous Drum and Bugle Corps, and later graduated in 1948 from the Summer Naval Sailing School

A 1954 graduate of Indiana University, and it's ROTC Program where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, and the Military honorary Scabbard and Blade and was in Gen Omar Bradley's honor guard when he came to IU to dedicate the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism

A 1955 graduate of The Infantry School at Ft Benning, Ga. Where he finished in the upper one 3rd of his class of 250 other 2nd Lieutenants and set the Ft. Benning record on the 30-caliber light and heavy machine guns.

Aa a 1st Lt of Infantry, he was a platoon leader and later the executive officer in E Company of the 5th U.S. Infantry Regiment at Ft Lewis, Washington

In 1956 He was selected to attend, The Infantry School’s special course in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Warfare, subjects that he taught to the new draftees of the 4th Division.

Later he was selected to witness the last above ground explosion of an atomic bomb at Yucca Flats, Nevada, in 1957.

Assigned to Korea he served as the 2nd Battalion Adjutant of the 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment aka “The Rock of Chickamagua” in 1957, and as the Hq Co Exec of the 4th Cavalry Regiment 1st Cavalry Division.

Prior to his discharge he served as Joint Personnel Processing Officer in the Recruiting and Induction Main Station in Harrisburg, PA.

He was the past President of the Frushour Oil and Propane Co. of Lucerne, it was rated by Butane Propane News, as the biggest, and best Independent Propane Company in the Mid-West, but still operating out of Lucerne, with his mother and brother Jim,  All founded in 1889 by his grandfather who owned the hardware store in Lucerne, continuously operating as first a hardware, then an oil, and propane business, the latter founded by his father, until the final sale in 1989.

After his retirement he began experimenting in the growing of the rare psylocibin cubensis mushroom, that he sent to Northwestern University School of medicine and is now used as a treatment for PTSD sufferers, and became one of the top mycologists in that field in the United States.

He wrote and published the trilogy of stories featuring cats, all told in verse called “Coco and The Cats” that are now presently in all the local libraries and schools plus a number of short stories.

He was preceded in death by his mother, father, and brother Jim, sister-in-law Marilyn Dwyer Frushour a nephew David Frushour and niece, Joyce Frushour Lindley, and his wife Joan Halsema Frushour.

Both his, Joan's, and their cat's ashes will be scattered in the streets and alleys of Lucerne and at St. Ann's Cemetery in the Hines/Frushour family plot, located between Grass Creek and Kewanna.

They had no children.

Burial arrangements will be private.

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