Betty Jean McBroom Rushing

Published 12:00 am Friday, September 26, 2008

Services for Betty Jean McBroom Rushing will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Glenwood Funeral Home with Elder Charles Holder officiating. Burial will follow at Green Acres Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 1 until the hour of the service at the funeral home.

Mrs. Rushing died Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008, at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland. She was 73.

Mrs. Rushing was born in Vicksburg. She was a member of the Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church. She was a retired employee of Walgreens Drug Store.

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She was preceded in death by her parents, Harry McBroom and Stella Emerson; and a brother, Johnny McBroom.

Survivors include her husband, Joe Dan Rushing; two sons, Tony Goss and Burl Goss, both of Vicksburg; two daughters, Paula Nevels of Vicksburg and Robin Twisdale of Mason, Tenn.; two brothers, Ronnie McBroom and Ray Emerson; one sister, Wanda Davis; five grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Jay Kraemer, Keith Twisdale, Ryan Twisdale, Andy Rainey, Nathan Randal and Ronnie Twisdale.