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Mamie Lee Rushing Pope

8 Feb 1909 – 16 Mar 1985

Birth	8 Feb 1909
Death	16 Mar 1985
Cemetery	Laurel Oaks Memorial Park Mesquite , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added by	James Ellis on 20 Feb 2014
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125399914

Bio

Tyler Morning Telegraph Tyler, Texas · Saturday, March 16, 1985 Mrs. Mamie Pope GRAND SALINE Services for Mrs. Mamie Lee Pope, 76, Dallas, formerly of Grand Saline, are scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday in Macon-Douglas Funeral chapel in Dallas, with the Revs. Rod Bold and Bobby Pope officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Oaks Cemetery in Mesquite under direction of LyBrand Funeral Home in Wills Point. Mrs. Pope died early Friday morning in a Dallas hospital after a long illness. She was born in Kaufman County, Feb. 8, 1909, and lived in Grand Saline and Frankston but most of her life was spent in Dallas. She was a member of Calvary Full Gos-pel Church in Mesquite. Survivors include three sons, Wallace Pope Jr. and Edgar Pope, both of Dallas, and Bobby Pope, Balch Springs; two daughters, Betty Sue Atkins and Nelda Carol Kelleher, both of Mesquite; three brothers, L.A. Rushing, Wills Point, Ollie Rushing. Corpus Christi, and Earl Rushing, Dallas two sisters, Juanita Lankford, New Caney, and Edna Boyles, Grand Saline; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Nephews will be pallbearers.

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Family

Parents

• Eva Lee Farmer Rushing 1881–1925
• Edgar Albert Rushing 1885–1965

Spouse

• Wallace Alonzo Pope Sr 1906–1975 FaG

Siblings

• Louis Albert Rushing 1906–2001
• Margaret Rushing 1913–1924
• Edgar Earl Rushing 1919–1998

Children

• Wallace Alonzo "W.A." Pope Jr 1927–2016 FaG
• Edgar Thaddeus "Ted" Pope 1931–2020 FaG
• Nelda Carol Pope Kelleher 1945–2016 FaG

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