Shaun Patrick Bushey

Shaun Patrick Bushey, 45 years old of East Troy, WI passed away Saturday, December 13, 2025. He was born March 28, 1980 to Dennis and Margaret (McKimmy) Bushey in Racine, WI. Shaun grew up in a Christian household, attending a Christian school, and receiving Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior at fifteen years old. He enjoyed his yearly state and international conventions for church where he earned many first place awards and discovered his lifelong love for poetry. On May 24, 2003, Shaun was united in marriage with Cora VanderMeiden at Merrill Bible Church in Merrill, WI. In 2010 at age 30, Shaun was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and was given around one year to live, but God had another plan. At the time he and Cora both sought the Lord separately in the face of this devastating news and asked God how they should pray. He confirmed by telling them both to ask that, “God’s will would be done and His glory be shown” and by his grace, they continued to pray this throughout the remainder of his life. Shaun’s strong faith in God, courage, and perseverance in the face of his ongoing battle with cancer have been an encouragement and inspiration to many. With the Lord’s leading, he went back to school in 2019 - attending Liberty University in Virginia where he attained his bachelor’s degree in 2022 and was four weeks shy of completing his master’s degree at the time of his passing. Shaun enjoyed spending time with his family playing board games, listening to audiobooks, and traveling on occasion. It’s difficult to capture the essence of Shaun’s life in such a limited space so we have included a poem at the bottom of his obituary that he wrote in 2019 to allow you to catch a glimpse of himself in his own words. At the time he wrote it, he didn’t know who it was for but in recent weeks he revisited it and realized that he wrote it for himself for this present time. May God continue to receive all the glory for what he has done in and through Shaun's life.

Survivors include, his wife of 22 years, Cora; children, Charlotte, Faith, William, and Abigail; brother, Chad (Kim); sister, Katie (Sean) Corbett; nieces and nephews, Kari Broom, Elizabeth, Jeremiah, Perpetua, Ezekiel, Justice, and Ava Bushey and Jack, Emma, Samantha Johanna, and Noah Corbett; father and mother-in-law, Kirk and Mary Rose VanderMeiden; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Shaun was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, John and Donna McKimmy; paternal grandparents, Richard and Elaine Bushey; niece, Grace Bushey; nephew, Joseph Bushey; aunt, Eva McKimmy; and uncle, Harold Marting.

Memorial Visitation will be held from 9:00AM until the time of service at 11:00AM Saturday, January 3, 2026 at Southern Lakes Church, N6686 US Hwy 12 Elkhorn, WI 53121. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Bushey Family Fund in C/O Cora Bushey. For additional information, please call (262)-728-2500.

Thy Will Be Done

The Answer to Prayer | the Death of Self

By Shaun Bushey

Just four little words that roll off the tongue which often are said and sometimes are sung, in many a prayer we often do frame that thy will be done and lost souls reclaimed. Then, often we go about, most every day, just watching the news whether black, white, or gray. The black we account to the tragic events; violence, despair, a loved one’s absence. The good we account to the blessings from God; peace and good fortune, new life to be laud. The gray we attribute to both loss and gain; a crop partially lost, but then thankful for rain. While we have the view of both good and of bad, of riches we’ve gained or losses we’ve had, it can be for certain of all said and done that God’s will’s accomplished for all and for one.

“But how could that ever possibly be if God won’t even answer my plea? I pray for one’s life, yet still I see death. I pray for good health, yet struggle for breath. I pray for peace, yet the world is at war. I ask for some rest while I do endless chores. I even just ask for some peace quiet, yet all around me is chaos and riot, and I’m not alone in this quandary to pray, many I know also struggle this way! You tell us to ask, seek, knock, and we’ll find. We strive so to do meekly and that with one mind. You say to believe, “be joyful in hope,” while often through the hardships we patently cope. You say that you hear when we call in distress, in sorrow, in pain, relief from life’s mess. Do you not hear when we earnestly call? Are you not there when we’re scaling those walls? Are you not willing to lift when we fall? Do you not shelter when woes do befall?”

Is it not written this world is accursed, that in life we’ll struggle, for blood evil thirsts? Is it not written, “My burden is light,” for waiting on him means one mounts and takes flight? Is it not written He ordereth all; “The steps of a [good] man,” who answers the call? Is it not written in each person’s part, “the LORD” is the sovereign who, “looks at the heart.”?

But what does that have to do with my prayers, for he says on Him to cast all your cares?

You may not be asking for such carnal things as fame, great possessions or huge diamond rings. You may not be asking at all for yourself; a loved one’s or stranger’s provision or health. You may not be seeking permission to go; embark on your calling, hold fast, or tread slow. You may not be seeking for answers from woes, what you are seeking for only God knows. But, that be the case, you’re where you should be for He knows the hearts of both you and of me. For He knows the plans that He has for you; he knew what we’d ask before we had a clue, whether kneeling in closet, at bedside, or pew, He does answer prayers and His message is true. That doesn’t mean it’s the answer you seek, when doors become shut and options are bleak; when debts encompass you in a sinkhole and your very existence seems out of control! Yes, even this could be answers to prayer, though it may seem that the LORD is not really there. This brings us the heart of this little rhyme; a question to pose through the annals of time, are each of us seeking that “my” will be done or are we now seeking the will of the Son? Remember when Christ where He knelt down to pray, the drops of sweat-blood that did fall by the way, He begged the Father to take from His cup, yet was ever willing to give His will up. That was His theme for all of His life; His purpose, His passion, amid joy and strife. He gave the example of dying to self; no place to call home, no stores of great wealth. What He did do was answer the call; to give His whole will for the service of all. That’s what he calls for each one to do; for us to surrender to God who is true. It’s not about setting all our heart’s fires, Submitting to Him is what He desires.

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