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James F. Rush, Sr
A devout Catholic, Jimmie was a devoted husband and father who worked diligently to provide for his family as a production supervisor at Kyanize Paint in Everett, MA for 43 years. However, it is not this employment history that defined him, but, rather, it is the history of his employment with the love of sports. For Jimmie, this “job” is the one that gave him the most enjoyment; it is the one that provided him the means to achieve his goals and help others. In 1963, he was named as a New England baseball scout for the Cincinnati Reds, while simultaneously volunteering in the Trafton Park Little League organization. During World War II, he served his country in a way that incorporated his gift to spot athletic talent and to teach it as well. Jimmie was stationed in England as a physical education trainer for the Air Corps, coaching the pilots to reach their individual personal-best fitness levels. It was during this service, that Jimmie’s picture was captured in a photo-op helping to weigh-in the then-famous light-heavyweight boxer, Billy Conn. In high school, Jimmie also attained athletic notoriety as Captain of both the baseball and basketball teams at Everett High School, Everett, MA. After graduation in 1933, he met the other love of his life, Marion Schulze, when he served as her head coach of the Everett basketball team known as The Collins Club. They married in 1943 and had three children, making Malden their home for over 60 years, until mutually declining health necessitated their move into the Annemark Nursing Home. As residents there, they continued their unique and loving bond in a shared room, affectionately known to family and friends as “The Honeymoon Suite.” In June of 2009, his beloved wife, Marion Schulze Rush, passed away. Jimmie is also predeceased by his father, James H. Rush; mother, Veronica; and twin brother, Edmund Francis, who died in infancy. Jimmie is survived by sons, James F. Rush, Jr., and his wife Kathleen, of Malden, MA; Edmund F. Rush, and his wife, Denise, of Salem, New Hampshire; a daughter, Patricia A. Murray, and her husband, Richard, of Pompano Beach, Florida; sister-in-law, Avis McLennan, and her husband, Donald, of Laconia, NH; and brothers-in-law, Arthur Schulze, of Londonderry, NH, Robert Schulze, and his wife, Ginny, of Saugus, MA; sister-in-law, Priscilla Schulze of Lynn, MA; grandchildren: Kelly, Kara, Lauren, & Scott Rush; “special nieces-in-law” Donna Biscan and Catherine Strum, as well as many other nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews, and close family friend, Rev. Paul Gilbert of Concord, NH. Calling hours will be at the Weir-MacCuish Golden Rule Funeral Home, 144 Salem Street, Malden, MA on Friday, 11/27/2009 from 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Jimmie’s funeral will be held from the Weir-MacCuish Golden Rule Funeral Home, 144 Salem St., Malden on Saturday, 11/28/2009 at 9:00 A.M. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Joseph’s Church, 770 Salem St., Malden, MA at 10:00 AM. Interment will follow in Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, Peabody, where he will rejoin with his loving wife, Marion, to reside, once again, as a couple, together forever. Donations can also be made in Jimmie’s memory to either the Dana-Farber Jimmy Fund, 10 Brookline Place West, 6th Floor, Brookline, MA 02445-7226 or Hospice of the North Shore, 75 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA 01923.
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James
F. Rush, Sr., died Tuesday, November 24th, 2009, at
the Annemark Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center, Revere, MA
at the age of 96 surrounded by family and friends. In his
younger days, “Jimmie” was best known throughout the city of
Malden, as a coach to many Little Leaguers at Trafton Park. To
those, back then, who were fortunate enough to call him that,
and to his loving family, he will always be remembered as
fair-minded, kind, and honest–a gentle-man—one whose
easygoing nature never gave rise to anger. He was a man whose
personality and charm embodied the very word gentleman itself.
In fact, Jimmie’s legacy might be summed up as exactly that: a
gentle man who lived and died a gentle old soul. 