Bush turns 21

Mark M. Bush, son of Mark and Jennifer (Garcia) Bush of Long Beach, Mississippi, is turning 21 years old.

Mark played football for four years in high school and attended submarine training in Connecticut. Mark thanks the Choctaw Nation for its support during his high school years.

He is proud of his Choctaw heritage. His great-grandmother, FB, Ethel M. Vann, attended Wheelock Academy in Millerton and later Haskell in Lawrence, Kansas. His great-great-great grandfather, Mitchell Bobb, an original enrollee from Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, Territory,was one of the WWI Choctaw Code Talkers.

In November 2013, his grandmother, Anella Garcia of Kansas City, Missouri, received the silver medal in Bobb’s honor at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Happy Birthday, Mark!