Madean Sims Rush

© Enid News and Eagle

10-18-2013

Submitted by: Ann Weber

© Enid News and Eagle

ENID, OK - Graveside service for Madean Sims Rush will be 1:30 p.m. today, Oct. 18, 2013, in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Rev. Matthew Perkins, pastor, will officiate. Arrangements are by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva.

Madean Ima, daughter of Henry David and Martha (Lena) (Cummings) Sims, was born at home on the farm near Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Okla., on July 1, 1910, with a Native American midwife in attendance. She passed at Enid Homes of Greenbrier on Oct. 16, 2013, at the age of 103 years, 3 months and 15 days.

The family moved to Waurika, Okla., where Madean attended school and graduated with the class of 1929. She then attended Draughn's Business College, Wichita Falls, Texas, where she graduated with a degree in accounting.

She was working as a bookkeeper at the Ford Dealership in Waurika and had a room in a boarding house that was run by her great-aunt, Maude Sim Miller. There was a young assistant veterinarian and a certified veterinarian also staying there. Their job was drawing blood from milk cows to check for Bangs Disease, and Madean's parents had a dairy farm. When Madean and Donald saw each other for the first time it was love at first sight. They were married on June 8, 1940, in Enid, Okla.

They lived their married life in Alva, and she was the first women hired by the Farmer's Cooperative to keep the harvest books, a job that she filled for many years.

After Donald died on Sept. 16, 1987, she moved to Enid to be near her family.

She is Past Enid Chapter Regent, Daughters of the American Revolution; past president of Robert Coe Chapter Colonial Dames of XVII Century; past treasurer of Sgt. Amos Kirkpatrick Chapter Daughters of War of 1812; member of Oklahoma Chapter of Colonial Daughters of the 17th Century; New England Women; Plantaganet Society, First Families of the Twin Territories of Oklahoma; Sovereign Colonial Society of Americans of Royal Descent; and National Society of Magna Charta Dames. Genealogy was her hobby and passion.

She was a Sunday school and Vacation Bible School teacher at First Christian Church (Disciples) of Alva. She and her husband served as treasurers of the church. Recently, she was a member of Puritan Congregational Christian United Church of Christ, Drummond, Okla.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Roy Thomas Sims and James Lewis Sims Sr.

Left to cherish her life is her daughter, Donna Lamb and husband Larry of Drummond; granddaughter, Teresa Mitchell and husband Michael of Tuttle; also two great-granddaughters; as well as three nephews and one niece.

Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to Enid Chapter DAR for Honor Flight for WWII Veterans, with the funeral home as custodian of funds.

Condolences may be made online at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

(Submitted by family)

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