Barbara was raised on a farm near Clarks and attended a one-room country school during her elementary education. She graduated from Fullerton High School in 1967 and worked in the banking field for nearly twenty years. She graduated from Central Community College-Platte Campus in 1994, which changed her career. She is currently editor of the Nance County Journal in Fullerton, where she resides with her husband, Albert. The couple has four grown daughters.
She serves on the board of the Nebraska Press Women, the CCC-Platte Campus advisory board for Fullerton classes, and as a chairman for the National Federation of Press Women. She has won numerous awards from the Nebraska Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, The Nebraska Mothers’ Association, the Jim Raglin award, the National Federation of Press Women, and in 2004 was the first place NFPW sweepstakes winner becoming the first Nebraskan to win this award. In 2005, she released her first book “Listen with the Heart” under her author name, Barbara Dush. It contains stories of, as one reader put it, “Nebraska’s heroes.” |
