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Busby's first wife was Edith Marie Oliver Busby (1894–1973), who was a schoolteacher in New Jersey, where the couple met and married. After her death, Busby remarried. He and
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Hawthorn Memorial Cemetery in Jefferson City, alongside his first wife Edith. Busby had no children. Alan Busby had one brother, George Clough Busby (born in 1897).
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