Annette Adams Bush

Annette Adams Bush, passed away peacefully at her home on June 26, 2005, at the age of 83.

Annette Bush was a graduate of the Academy of Richmond County (1959) and LaGrange College with a BA in Religious Studies. She began a career in fine art in the 1960s and enjoyed three decades of traveling to art shows around the Southeast to show and sell her work and enjoyed opportunities to study art in New York City, Japan, and France. After moving around the Southeast with her family, they settled back in Augusta where she worked tirelessly in the art community. She worked with the city for an art exchange with Takarazuka, Japan, Augusta’s sister city, and visited that city often. She partnered with Augusta Mayor Charles DeVaney to start the Artists Row project, filling Broad Street’s empty buildings with art studios and galleries along with the start of Augusta’s First Friday, a monthly celebration to showcase the downtown artists and their work. She was twice president of the Georgia Watercolor Society and twice president of the Southern Watercolor Society.

She is survived by her daughter Kathryn Bush of Appling, GA, and her granddaughters Lucy and Belle McJunkins, her sister Ellen Adams Hunt, of Newberry, SC, and her nieces and nephew.

She is predeceased by her parents, Henry C. Adams, Jr. and Laura Story Adams, her husband Henry H. Bush, her daughter Susan Bush, and her sister Merribeth Adams Stratton.

Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.