With Hurricane Irma about to bear down on South Florida at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Gary Bush – a well-loved Miami-Dade teacher, community stalwart and father of former Miami Hurricane and current Chicago Bear Deon Bush – took his last breath in the hospice unit of University of Miami Hospital.
“I was the only one with him,’’ said Michele Bush, his wife of 27 years and the assistant principal at the Center for International Education, a Miami-Dade public magnet school in Homestead. “The kids were home, safe and all boarded up. I think Gary’s passing was his way of telling me, ‘I’m tired.