Obit of Gussie Letha Parish - Rush Springs, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips     genephillips@usa.net
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::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK

Rush Springs Gazette - Rush Springs OK
January 27, 2000

Gussie Letha Parish, 83, of Rush Springs died Thursday, January 20, 
2000, in Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. 

Funeral Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 24 in the Church 
of Christ in Rush Springs with Clif Werhan officiating. Burial was in 
Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Callaway-Smith-Cobb Funeral 
Home.

Mrs Parish was born July 11, 1916, in Rush Springs, the daughter of 
Homer Crittendon and Myrtle (Haynes) Crittendon. 

She was married to Robert Finley Parish in Pauls Valley on September 
10, 1939. He died August 13, 1980. 

She had lived in Rush Springs all her life and was a school teacher in 
Rush Springs for 32 years. She graduated from Rush Springs High School 
and received her BA Degree in Education from the Oklahoma College for 
Women in Chickasha. She was a member of the Retired Teacher's Assoctiation 
and the Rush Springs Church of Christ. 

Survivors include one sone, Ronald Parish and his wife Cindy of Rush 
Springs; one daughter, Leta Avents and her husband Gene of Rush Springs;
four grandchildren, Deanna Parish, Lee Parish, Tammy Martin, and her 
husband Lyndall, and Lisa Foster and her husband Barry; one step-grandson,
Kelsey Avants; seven great grandchildren; and one brother Lee Crittendon 
of Rush Springs. 

Pallbearers were Daryn Brantly, Don Hall, Roy Jennings, Robbie Pelley, 
Paul Loveless, Lyndall Martin, Barry Foster and Kelsey Avants. 
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