Mrs. Anna Rush, 69, wife of Wilbur E. Rush, Second street, passed away early Sunday morning in a
Rome hospital to which place she had been ill several weeks.
Mrs. Rush was born January 20, 1869, at Saratoga, N.Y., the daughter of the late George and
Frances Fuller Pettit. Twenty-seven years ago she moved to Camden from Schenectady. She was
married to Mr. Rush thirteen years ago at Rome by the Rev. C. Fred Miller. She was a member
of the Camden M. E. Church and the Camden Grange.
Surviving besides her husband is a daughter, Mrs. Helen Murphy, Detroit, Mich., and a sister,
Mrs. R. H. Hart, Schenectady.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the B. A. Sanborn and Son Funeral
Home, Main street, with the Rev. T. J. Williams of the M.E. Church officiating. Interment was
in Forest Park Cemetery.
Mrs. B. A. Sanborn and Mrs. Hetty Hodges sang two selections "End of the Road" and "Softly and
Tenderly." Thirty-two members of the Camden chapter, O.E.S., attended in a body, with Mrs.
Jabez Ford and Mrs. Gerald Costello conducting the Eastern Star services. During these services
Mrs. Sanborn and Mrs. Hodges sand "Nearer My God To Thee."
Bearers were Reuben C. Knapp, Judson Mosher, Irvin Torney, Edward Rowell, Charles Engle and
Herbert Alvord.
Attending from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. John Dearnaley, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hart,
William Petit, Schenectady; Mrs. Helen Murphy, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Brooks, Syracuse;
and Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Peck, Liverpool.
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