Huey Lee Rush Jr.

1932 - 2006

Huey Lee Rush Jr., 73, died Monday, June 12, 2006.

Memorial service: 11 a.m. Saturday at Fort Graham Baptist Church in Whitney. Burial: At a later date in Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.

Memorials: Fort Graham Baptist Church, 137 FM 2604, Whitney, Texas 76692.

Huey was the son of Huey and Alma Anna Huff Rush. He grew up in the Corsicana State Orphans Home beginning at age 13. He attended and graduated for the Corsicana State Orphans School and played football and ran track at Navarro Junior College and North Texas. He received his bachelor's and master's degree from North Texas. He was a teacher and coach for 15 years and then had his own construction business. During the Panama conflict, he served in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1959 and in the reserves until 1962.

He loved to play 42 and work with wood, adored his grandchildren and was a good family man. He was a member of Fort Graham Baptist Church.

Survivors: His wife, Virginia of Whitney; children, Sharon Graves and husband, Gary, of Duncanville and Becky McClain and husband, Doug, of Granbury; brother, Raymond Rush and wife, YoKo, of Lake Charles, La.; sister, Margie Powell and husband, Carl, of Lake Charles, La.; 14 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.