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==Death and legacy== [[Image:Busch Mausoleum 2013.jpg|thumb|left|The Busch Mausoleum at [[Bellefontaine Cemetery]], designed by [[Barnett, Haynes & Barnett]]]] Busch died in [[Lindschied]] in 1913 while on vacation. He had been suffering from [[dropsy]] since 1906.<ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/10/11/100651720.pdf |title=Adolphus Busch Dies in Prussia |work= New York Times |date= October 11, 1913 |access-date=April 23, 2013 }}</ref> He was survived by his widow, five daughters and two sons, [[August Anheuser Busch Sr.|August A.]] and Carl Busch, both of St. Louis.<ref name="nytobit"/> His body was brought back to the United States in 1915 by ship, and transported by train to St. Louis. Almost thirty thousand people paid their respects to Adolphus Busch when his body lay in state in the family mansion in St. Louis. Notable guests included the U.S. secretary of agriculture, the president of Harvard University, and the president of the University of California. The procession consisted of twenty-five trucks that were needed to transport all the flower arrangements to the cemetery as well as a 250 piece band that led the funeral procession. The procession spanned twenty miles, from No. 1 Busch Place to [[Bellefontaine Cemetery]], Adolphus' final resting place. As many as 100,000 mourners lined the streets for the procession. Five minutes of silence were observed at the request of Mayor Henry W. Kiel and the lights were turned off at the Jefferson and Planter's House hotels. Streetcars were also halted.<ref name=":0" /> Lilly Anheuser's parents had built a mausoleum at Bellefontaine Cemetery, but she felt that Adolphus needed something grander. She tore down the original structure, and had the other family members reinterred outside. She had Thomas Barnett design a new mausoleum in the Bavarian Gothic style. Constructed of stone quarried in Missouri, and completed in 1921, the new building cost $250,000 (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|0.1|1906|r=1}} million today). It features grapevines representing both Adolphus' birthplace in German wine country, and his favorite beverage. Julius Caesar's words, "Veni, Vidi, Vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered" are inscribed on the lintel.<ref name=":0" /> Lilly died of a [[heart attack]] and [[pneumonia]] on 17 February 1928, in Pasadena, California. Her body was brought back to St. Louis, and was buried beside her husband.<ref name=":0" /> {{-}}
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