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Roy Rushing - Madison Parish, Louisiana
From Madison Journal, January 1980
Roy Rushing died on January 12, 1980 in a hospital in Shreveport, LA after suffering an illness for
several years.
He was 77 years old.
Mr. Rushing was born to born to Franklin and Mary Josephine Hollander Rushing on October 17, 1902 in
Scott
County, Morton, MS.
Mr. Rushing came to Louisiana around 1924 and lived in Tallulah and the Tallulah area for the
remainder of
his life.  He worked for the East Carroll/Madison Parish Soil Conservation District.  He was a member
of the
First Baptist Church.
Mr. Rushing was preceded in death by two sons, Emmette Edward and Eugene, and one daughter, Rachel
Faye.
His survivors include 5 sons, Kenneth Ray and wife Leona of Many, LA, Roy Lee and wife Danielle of
Bossier
City, LA, Marion Houston and his wife Shirley of Great Falls, MT, Thomas Larry and his wife Henrietta
of
Midwest City, OK. and Ronald J. and his wife Eva Jean of Ferriday, LA, Three daughters, Evelyn Irene
Machen of Shreveport, LA, Zelpha Mae and husband Billy Ray Smith of Monroe, LA. and Joy Marie Smith of
Monroe, LA.
Funeral Services were held at the Crothers funeral home and he was interred at the Memorial Park
Cemetery in Tallulah, LA.