Rush - James 1960
Source: Unknown newspaper -- according to Waynetown Masonic Cemetery listing he died 9-9-1960
Waynetown - James (Jim) Earl Rush, 67, died early Friday morning at the Small Nursing Home in Waynetown. He had been ill for the past 15 years and seriously ill the past week. He was born Aug. 21, 1893, in New Market, the son of Francis A. and Mary Sanders Rush. He was married to Mary Copenhaver in Kentucky. His wife died in 1953. He was a member of the South Christian Church in Mellott, the Masonic Lodge at Wingate and the Waynetown Post of the American Legion. He was educated in the Mellott schools. Mr. Rush was a meat cutter by trade, working for Kroger's in Indianapolis for several years and in Wingate and Waynetown groceries. He served in the U.S. Army in World War I from June, 1917, to May, 1919, serving as a cook with the 138th Infantry. A sister, Ethel Rodgers, 1824 Fremont St., Crawfordsville, survives. He was preceded in death by a brother, Gerald, in 1929 and a sister, Mrs. Ada Coons, in 1945. Funeral services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Servies Funeral Home in Waynetown with Rev. John R. Servies officiating. Burial will be in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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