Dorothy A. Rust

November 23, 2011 

CHAUMONT, N.Y.  — Dorothy A. Rust, 81, of Chaumont, died Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Carthage Area Hospital, Skilled Nursing Unit where she had been a resident since April 2010. 

Born April 11, 1930, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Elmer and Yetta Eason McAnney, she graduated from Wooster, Ohio, schools and attended Ohio State College.  

She married Walter Rust on Aug. 23, 1952, at the Naval Base in Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Rust died Feb. 16, 1987.

Mrs. Rust enlisted in the Navy in 1950 serving in the nursing and medical department until 1953. 

Surviving her are four sons and two daughters-in-law, Jeffery, Tunica, Miss., Stephen and Valerie, Chaumont, Michael, William and Jennifer, all of Dexter; five Daughters and their husbands, Deborah and Brian Cuppernell, Chaumont, Kathleen and Timothy Callahan, Liberty, S.C., Cynthia and Charles Ransear, Murrells Inlet, S.C., Amy and Daniel Litteer, Easley, S.C.,  and Mary and Daniel O’kay, Lugolff, S.C.; 27 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren. 

A brother, Raymond McAnaney, and a sister Mildred Totten, both died before her. 

A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Becker-Cleveland Funeral Home, Chaumont, NY. 

Donations may be given in her name to Disabled American Veterans of Jefferson County Chapter No. 18, 231 Bellew Ave., Watertown, NY 13601