1927
Ann
2014
Ann Price
January 7, 1927 — October 15, 2014
Ann Rushing Price, age 87, of Amarillo passed away peacefully on Wednesday at Bivins Memorial Nursing Home, long term care facility due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. She had been a resident at Bivins since June, ably attended by the nursing staff there. Her last days were in the compassionate care of Hospice Care of the Southwest.
She was surrounded by family and friends.
A funeral Mass will be held at St. Hyacinth's Catholic Church, 4500 W. Hills Trail, Amarillo, TX at 10 am Saturday. Burial will be at 2:30 pm in Shamrock Cemetery in Shamrock, Texas. The family will receive guests at at Schooler Funeral Home at 6pm on
Friday, followed by a Rosary at 7. To get to the cemetery, turn east from the base of the water tower, in downtown Shamrock. Shamrock cemetery is two miles east on the north side of road.
Ann was born January 7, 1927, in Derry, Pennsylvania, baptized and christened Anna Mikulich, the daughter of John and Anna Mikulich, who precede her in death. She grew up during the Great Depression in tenement housing in Pittsburgh and attended school until the 10th grade. She dropped out of school to work. At a USO dance, she met
Sgt. Eual Newton Rushing, of Shamrock, Texas, who was attending US Army Signal Corps training and preparing to be shipped to the South Pacific. He returned, and they married after the war and had three sons, who survive her: John Eual Rushing, of Cary, North Carolina, age 67, Ronald Andrew Rushing, of Omaha, Nebraska, age 64, and Robert
Newton Rushing of Amarillo, Texas, age 58. She and Eual raised their family in Shamrock and Amarillo, Texas. Eual died in Amarillo on March 16, 1970. Later in life, Ann married RJ Price of Amarillo, Texas. RJ preceded her in death in 2004, after 17 years of marriage.
Ann is survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary Messmer of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, three granddaughters, three grandsons, six great grandchildren, and her daughters-in law.
Ann retired from Albertson's in 1994 after 30 years of employment, starting in 1964 with the Skaggs Drug Company in downtown Amarillo. She was a lifelong practicing Catholic and a member of the congregation of St. Hyacinth's Catholic Church of Amarillo.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorials to the Vocational Nursing Scholarships, The Amarillo College Foundation, P.O. Box 447, Amarillo, Texas 79178, or to St. Hyacinth's Church Building Fund.
She was surrounded by family and friends.
A funeral Mass will be held at St. Hyacinth's Catholic Church, 4500 W. Hills Trail, Amarillo, TX at 10 am Saturday. Burial will be at 2:30 pm in Shamrock Cemetery in Shamrock, Texas. The family will receive guests at at Schooler Funeral Home at 6pm on
Friday, followed by a Rosary at 7. To get to the cemetery, turn east from the base of the water tower, in downtown Shamrock. Shamrock cemetery is two miles east on the north side of road.
Ann was born January 7, 1927, in Derry, Pennsylvania, baptized and christened Anna Mikulich, the daughter of John and Anna Mikulich, who precede her in death. She grew up during the Great Depression in tenement housing in Pittsburgh and attended school until the 10th grade. She dropped out of school to work. At a USO dance, she met
Sgt. Eual Newton Rushing, of Shamrock, Texas, who was attending US Army Signal Corps training and preparing to be shipped to the South Pacific. He returned, and they married after the war and had three sons, who survive her: John Eual Rushing, of Cary, North Carolina, age 67, Ronald Andrew Rushing, of Omaha, Nebraska, age 64, and Robert
Newton Rushing of Amarillo, Texas, age 58. She and Eual raised their family in Shamrock and Amarillo, Texas. Eual died in Amarillo on March 16, 1970. Later in life, Ann married RJ Price of Amarillo, Texas. RJ preceded her in death in 2004, after 17 years of marriage.
Ann is survived by one sister, Mrs. Mary Messmer of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, three granddaughters, three grandsons, six great grandchildren, and her daughters-in law.
Ann retired from Albertson's in 1994 after 30 years of employment, starting in 1964 with the Skaggs Drug Company in downtown Amarillo. She was a lifelong practicing Catholic and a member of the congregation of St. Hyacinth's Catholic Church of Amarillo.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorials to the Vocational Nursing Scholarships, The Amarillo College Foundation, P.O. Box 447, Amarillo, Texas 79178, or to St. Hyacinth's Church Building Fund.
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