Obit of Rush, Dorothy Louise (r200) - Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips   <genephillips@usa.net>  22 Jul 2004
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Norman Transcript  08/05/03 
 
Dorothy Louise (Rose) Rush, 90, of Norman, died Saturday, Aug. 1, in 
Oklahoma City. Services will be at 10 a.m. Aug. 11 at the Norman IOOF 
Cemetery at her cemetery space west of the pond. Primrose Funeral Service 
in Norman is handling arrangements. 

Mrs. Rush was born Nov. 30, 1912, in Norman, to Stephen Thomas “S.T.” and 
Allie (Hamilton) Rose. She graduated from Norman High School. She earned a 
degree in education from the University of Oklahoma. She taught for a few 
years in elementary schools in Muldrow and Tuttle. She moved to 
Washington, D.C., in the early 1940s and began a 30-year career between 
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Air Force. At the end of World 
War II, she spent a year as a civilian working with the Air Force. She 
married John Rush. They retired to Prescott, Ariz., after Mrs. Rush 
retired from the federal government. They lived in Prescott for 20 years 
before Mr. Rush died. Mrs. Rush then moved to Norman. 

Mrs. Rush is survived by her nieces, Vickie Rose Oberg of Bakersfield, 
Calif., and Linda Rose Mayo of Dallas; cousins, Joe Hamilton of Soddy 
Daisy, Tenn., Peggy Harris Lott of Westfield, N.J., and Ruth Hamilton Boyd 
of Noble; and special friends, Freda Muldrow of Oklahoma City and Hilda 
Buchanan of Norman. 

Mrs. Rush was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, Henry 
“Bud” and Steven Edwin “Eddie” Rose; and sister, Martha Elizabeth “Betty” 
Rose. 

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Norman Transcript 08/06/03 
 
Dorothy Louise (Rose) Rush, 90, of Norman, died Saturday, Aug. 2, in 
Oklahoma City. Services will be at 10 a.m. Aug. 11 at the Norman IOOF 
Cemetery at her cemetery space west of the pond. Primrose Funeral Service 
in Norman is handling arrangements. Mrs. Rush was born Nov. 30, 1912, in 
Norman, to Stephen Thomas “S.T.” and Allie (Hamilton) Rose. She graduated 
from Norman High School. She earned a degree in education from the 
University of Oklahoma. She taught for a few years in elementary schools 
in Muldrow and Tuttle. She moved to Washington, D.C., in the early 1940s 
and began a 30-year career between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and 
the Air Force. At the end of World War II, she spent a year as a civilian 
working with the Air Force. She married John Rush. They retired to 
Prescott, Ariz., after Mrs. Rush retired from the federal government. They 
lived in Prescott for 20 years before Mr. Rush died. Mrs. Rush then moved 
to Norman. Mrs. Rush is survived by her nieces, Vickie Rose Oberg of 
Bakersfield, Calif., and Linda Rose Mayo of Dallas; cousins, Joe Hamilton 
of Soddy Daisy, Tenn., Peggy Harris Lott of Westfield, N.J., and Ruth 
Hamilton Boyd of Noble; and special friends, Freda Mulhall of Oklahoma 
City and Hilda Buchanan of Norman. Mrs. Rush was preceded in death by her 
parents; husband; brothers, Henry “Bud” and Steven Edwin “Eddie” Rose; and 
sister, Martha Elizabeth “Betty” Rose. 
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