Dr. Priscilla S. Rushton of Memphis, retired professor of biology at Memphis State University, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East after a long illness. She was 49.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at St. Luke's United Methodist Church with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge.
Dr. Rushton taught at Memphis State for about 20 years before her retirement in 1986.
She was born in Clarksdale, Miss., and moved to Memphis as a youngster. She graduated from East High School and received a bachelor's degree in biology with honors from Rhodes College. She received her doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Rushton was active in her support for the disabled and the handicapped. In 1981, she received the national Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS Patient Achievement Award.
She also was active in the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority at Rhodes College.
She was the author of Divine Genetics: Reflections of a Scientific Christian.
Dr. Rushton, the widow of Capt. B. Wayne Rushton , leaves a son, Brian W. Rushton Jr., and her father, Sidney Strickland, both of Memphis, and a brother, Sidney Strickland III of Setauket, N.Y.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorials be sent to Multiple Sclerosis Society or the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Commercial Appeal on 7-03-1992.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at St. Luke's United Methodist Church with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge.
Dr. Rushton taught at Memphis State for about 20 years before her retirement in 1986.
She was born in Clarksdale, Miss., and moved to Memphis as a youngster. She graduated from East High School and received a bachelor's degree in biology with honors from Rhodes College. She received her doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Rushton was active in her support for the disabled and the handicapped. In 1981, she received the national Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS Patient Achievement Award.
She also was active in the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority at Rhodes College.
She was the author of Divine Genetics: Reflections of a Scientific Christian.
Dr. Rushton, the widow of Capt. B. Wayne Rushton , leaves a son, Brian W. Rushton Jr., and her father, Sidney Strickland, both of Memphis, and a brother, Sidney Strickland III of Setauket, N.Y.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorials be sent to Multiple Sclerosis Society or the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Commercial Appeal on 7-03-1992.
Dr. Priscilla S. Rushton of Memphis, retired professor of biology at Memphis State University, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East after a long illness. She was 49.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at St. Luke's United Methodist Church with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge.
Dr. Rushton taught at Memphis State for about 20 years before her retirement in 1986.
She was born in Clarksdale, Miss., and moved to Memphis as a youngster. She graduated from East High School and received a bachelor's degree in biology with honors from Rhodes College. She received her doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Rushton was active in her support for the disabled and the handicapped. In 1981, she received the national Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS Patient Achievement Award.
She also was active in the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority at Rhodes College.
She was the author of Divine Genetics: Reflections of a Scientific Christian.
Dr. Rushton, the widow of Capt. B. Wayne Rushton , leaves a son, Brian W. Rushton Jr., and her father, Sidney Strickland, both of Memphis, and a brother, Sidney Strickland III of Setauket, N.Y.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorials be sent to Multiple Sclerosis Society or the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Commercial Appeal on 7-03-1992.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at St. Luke's United Methodist Church with burial in Memorial Park. Memorial Park Funeral Home has charge.
Dr. Rushton taught at Memphis State for about 20 years before her retirement in 1986.
She was born in Clarksdale, Miss., and moved to Memphis as a youngster. She graduated from East High School and received a bachelor's degree in biology with honors from Rhodes College. She received her doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Rushton was active in her support for the disabled and the handicapped. In 1981, she received the national Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS Patient Achievement Award.
She also was active in the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority at Rhodes College.
She was the author of Divine Genetics: Reflections of a Scientific Christian.
Dr. Rushton, the widow of Capt. B. Wayne Rushton , leaves a son, Brian W. Rushton Jr., and her father, Sidney Strickland, both of Memphis, and a brother, Sidney Strickland III of Setauket, N.Y.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that any memorials be sent to Multiple Sclerosis Society or the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Commercial Appeal on 7-03-1992.
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