Aaron Rush Mathews

Aaron attended Betton Hills Preparatory School through eighth grade and graduated from Leon High School. He attended Florida State University through the first semester of his senior year, when he traded in his history major for a career in information technology.

He was a gentle, sensitive, insightful and intelligent soul who unfailingly treated those around him with compassion, care, and understanding.

He took pleasure in contributing to the greater good - working in information technology, modernizing methods that allowed health and human services providers to access child patient data and electronic health records, and allowing families and providers to virtually access medical and legal services more easily – and, at a more personal level, donating lengths of his abundant hair to cancer patients.

Aaron and Elizabeth Keating met when they were in college. For the 16 years of their relationship, Aaron was the quiet, thoughtful counterbalance to Elizabeth’s exuberance. She was the moving force pulling them forward. They married in 2019, and their son Henry was born in 2021. Aaron’s love for Henry was boundless.

Aaron is survived by his wife Elizabeth, son Henry, father Lex Mathews, mother Laura Rush, half-sisters Renee Mathews and Gretchen Mathews and their families, father-in-law Kevin Keating, sister-in-law Teagan Karuna and her family, brother-in-law Sean Keating, stepfather Michael B. Twomey, Sr., stepbrothers Michael Twomey, Jr. and Thomas Twomey and their families, aunt Kim Mathews, uncle Dan Kurtz, aunt Melinda Ann Keller, and devoted grandmother Judy Mathews.

A graveside service will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at 10 AM at Culley’s MeadowWood Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 700 Timberlane Rd.

In lieu of flowers, donations to honor Aaron may be made to the Tallahassee Museum.