Mary Ann Rush

“To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted…”

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

On the morning of December 24, 2022, Mary Ann (Scott) Rush answered the Lord’s call and peacefully passed away at home surrounded by her family.  Mary Ann was born on August 6, 1941, in Albemarle County, one of 14 children of the late Walter Scott, Sr. and Sarah Liza (Rush) Scott. 

She is survived by her husband of 60 years, Morris Landon Rush, Sr. and six children, three daughters Joanne, Barbara and Reva (husband Alan) and three sons Morris Landon, Jr. (aka Plunky), Bobby, and Isaac.  She is survived by her five grandsons, Rashard (wife Patrice), Cory, Troy, Morris III and Jeremiah and three granddaughters, Tynesha, Kyesha and (the adopted) Bridgette.  Her sisters, Clara Nelson – Sister (John), Helen Carter (the late Otis), Geneva Jones (the late Tom) and Frances Feggans, her brothers, Walter (Mary), John (Delores), Lindsay (the late Elizabeth), James – Mack, (the late Joyce), Reginald (the late Edith), and William (Peggy)  Also survived by 17 great-grandchildren, a long-time family friend, Charlie Lomax and many, many other cousins, family, and friends.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, David, her grandson, Tremaine and great-grandson, Danny, Jr., her sister, Juanita and her brothers Gene and Fred.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, January 2, 2023, at Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, 8825 Chestnut Grove Road, Esmont, VA 22937.  There will be a viewing from 12:00 noon until the home-going service at 1:00 p.m.  The burial will take place after the service in the church’s cemetery.  Face coverings are recommended.

I am home in heaven, dear ones;
All's so happy, all so bright!
There's perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.

All the pain and grief are over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in heaven at last.

Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the Valley of the Shade?
Oh! but Jesus' love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.

And He came Himself to meet me
On that way so hard to tread;
And with Jesus' arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?

Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still;
Try to look beyond earth's shadows,
Pray to trust our Father's will.

There is work still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand;
Do your work while life remaineth —
You shall rest in Jesus' land.

When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you home;
Oh, the rapture of the meeting!
Oh, the joy to see you come!

Funeral Services entrusted to Thacker Brothers Funeral Home, Scottsville, VA.

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