WINONA, Minn. – David Arthur Busch, of Winona, who was afflicted with encephalitis from a mosquito bite when he was 3, died at age 71. Near death from the bite, part of his brain die., He became an epileptic with grand mal seizures. At age 15, David dropped out of school to become a farm hand. He also worked carpentry and lived in a converted school bus. For a while he was a long-distance tucker hauling cattle. He also was on a tree-planting crew and himself planted 3,000 to 4,000 trees a day. In his late 30s\ he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Al his life, despite travails, he kept going.
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