Wednesday, June 21, 1944 - Friday, December 27, 2024
Mrs. Melba Ruth White Rush of Dothan went home to be with the Lord Friday, December 27, 2024, at her home. She was 80.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 2, 2025, in the chapel of Sorrells Funeral Home in Slocomb with Rev. Kevin Knight officiating. Interment will follow in the Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery.
The family will receive friends one hour prior to service time.
Mrs. Rush was born June 21, 1944, in Geneva County to the late Lummie and Mary Ruth Leddon White. Melba was a great woman of faith and member of the Dothan First Church of the Nazarene. She enjoyed collecting, especially angels, and loved to decorate. Melba was a loving wife, and adoring mother, and grandmother and will be dearly missed.
In addition to her parents, siblings: Jossie Oyle White, Johner Eldridge White, James Franklin White, and Kenneth Lamar White, all preceded her in death.
Survivors include her husband of 61 years, Ronnie Franklin Rush; children: Sheila Louise Byrd (Darin), and Robert Franklin Rush; five grandchildren: Phillip Arons, Thomas Arons, Jessica Arons, Anthony Cain, and Macie Rush; four great grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, other extended family friends, and her loving husky Dakota.
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