John D. Vanden Busch

John Vanden Busch, known to his friends as "Jack", was born on August 11, 1941 in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, moving to Milwaukee in 1970. He was known not only as a good, solid and generous friend, but as a person with a strong sense of humor and an out-going hand to everyone. Jack was fondly remembered by his friends at the "This Is It" bar for many things; his smile, his white Caddy (Cadillac), but most of all, for the interest that he always took in others. Jack had a phrase that had come from his childhood that he ujsed for his closest friends: "You old potlicker, you." What it meant no one was ever quite sure...

Jack died on Saturday, April 8, 1989 in a Milwaukee hospital of complications due to kidney failure.