Gail Busl

Gail White Busl, formerly of Manchester, VT passed away peacefully at Cedar Hill Health Care Center at the age of 95, or as she would have us say, “in her 96th year”.

Gail was born in Beverly, MA on December 9, 1930, daughter of Joseph and Marjorie White. She graduated from “Essex Aggie” (Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School), married shortly thereafter, moved to Cheshire and then to Williamstown, MA, where, as a single mother, she would work and raise her children. In 1969 Gail moved to Pownal, VT where she began her professional career as an elder care provider with the opening of her first community care home.

Gail Busl will be remembered for her incredibly strong work ethic, her limitless generosity, and her fierce dedication to the well-being of the most vulnerable members of her community. Her career as a successful business woman in Manchester, VT began in the early 1970s and lasted for over forty years. She was the sole owner and operator of multiple elder care homes that provided much-needed services to the families of Manchester and surrounding towns. Gail began building her business in what was once called The Old English Inn, a three-story Tudor-style property in disrepair that she renovated, retrofitted, and decorated to create her first elegant community care home providing round the clock caregiving to 20+ residents. Her business grew to include the Stone House at Dellwood, and finally, the stately home called Greenrange. For years her homes offered family-style shared living to seniors whose families sought to have their aging parents’ final days be spent in a non-institutional setting that provided personalized compassionate care. Gail’s innate desire to care for others remained apparent even in her retirement years at Manchester East where many neighbors would continue to benefit from her strong desire to take care of others and her unceasing generosity.

Hard work and creativity defined Gail’s life, and when she was not actively renovating and redecorating living spaces, she would spend long hours planning landscapes and planting ever-expanding gardens. She was truly a spatial artist who could weave beauty into an otherwise ordinary surrounding.

The gale force wind that was Gail White Busl shifted to a whisper during the final years of her life and finally went still on the evening of May 27, 2026. She closed her long life’s last chapter with a much-earned desire to rest and a final readiness to let go.

Gail is survived by her five children, Dixie Burns and her husband Steven of Bath, NH, Jeannie Greene of Pickens, SC, Brian Busl and his wife Linda of Citrus Springs, FL, Kevin Busl and his wife Ellen of Weathersfield, VT, and Kim Busl and his wife Joyce of Apison TN. She is also survived by numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Gail’s family would like to extend their deep appreciation to the entire caregiving staff at Cedar Hill Health Care Center for the incredibly compassionate care they provided during the final years of our mother’s life and our heartfelt thanks go out to those steadfast friends who enriched her life beyond measure.

At Gail’s request, a private celebration of life is planned at a time when family members can gather together.