Bettye Jane Yates Rushing, 63, of Longview, Texas passed away on June 24, 2013 at a local hospital. She was born on October 21, 1949 in Memphis, Texas to Ervin Alexander and Eunice Marie Fuller Yates. She graduated from Spring Hill High School in 1968. She married Jeff Rushing on June 27, 1980 in Longview, Texas and there they made their home.
She is survived by her husband: Jeff Rushing of Longview; mother-in-law: Margie Rushing of Longview; brother: Roy Lee Yates and his wife Vickie of Harleton, TX; sisters: Frances Gilbreath of Ore City, TX, and Mary Hess of McDormott, Ohio; sister-in-law: Betsey Yates of Lake o’ the Pines, TX; eight nieces and eight nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers: Charley Yates and William Yates; sister-in-law: Evelyn Yates.
Services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, 2013 at the Chapel of Lakeview Funeral Home, Longview, TX with Pastor Tim Lindsay officiating. Interment will follow at Lakeview Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 6-8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at the funeral home.
“Those we love don’t go away.
They walk beside us every day.
Unseen, unheard, but always near.
Still loved, still missed and very dear.”
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