A memorial service for Elizabeth Burgess Smith Rushing will beheld at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at Riverwood Family FuneralService Chapel with burial in Riverwood Memorial Park.

Visitation is Saturday from noon until the time of theservice.

Mrs. Rushing died on March 21, 2007, in Austin, Texas. She wasborn in Lincoln County on May 10, 1915, to Charles L. Burgess andHattie Amelia Burgess.

She was a graduate of New Sight High School and Copiah-LincolnJunior College. A member of Clear Branch Baptist Church, she was ahomemaker and an avid gardener. She was known for her gentlespirit, quiet manner, and quick wit. She always had a twinkle inher eyes and a smile that could light up a room.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husbands, David L.Smith and Clarence Rushing, as well as by five brothers and twosisters.

She is survived by her daughter, Ann Smith Hunt and husbandWaylon, of Austin; her grandchildren, Terri Ford and husband Ramie,of Clinton, Stacey Murphy and husband John, of Friendswood, Texas,and Keith Hunt and wife Shree, of Delhi, La.; hergreat-grandchildren, Kelcey Grubbs, Brianne Grubbs, Mary ClaireFord, Hunter Murphy, Addison Murphy, Andrew Murphy, Madelyn Ashley,Mason Hunt and McKinley Hunt; her sister, Nell Ford Day ofClarksville, Tenn.; and numerous nieces, nephews and other familymembers and friends.