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Gertrude “Trudy” Bush, CC contributing editor, dies at age 77

Gertrude “Trudy” Bush, a contributing editor of the Christian Century, died December 13 at age 77 in Upper Arlington, Ohio.

Bush spent 13 years on staff at the Christian Century and continued to write for the magazine after her retirement in 2004.

She was a refugee from Yugoslavia at the end of World War II, and her family lived in several refugee camps before coming to the United States.