Jannie Rush Chambers

Our dearly beloved, Jannie Rush Chambers, entered Eternal rest Monday, June 10, 2019 while a patient at Stanly Manor, Albemarle, North Carolina. Jannie was born November 25, 1932 in Montgomery County, North Carolina; and was the daughter of the late Robert “Bobby” and Lessie Leake Rush. She was a blessing to our family, who was loved and will be truly missed. We give thanks to Our Lord and Savior for the gift of a wonderful matriarch.

She attended the Montgomery County public schools. Jannie was a homemaker and loving mother to her eight children. As a devoted member of St. Stephens A.M.E. Zion Church, Mt Gilead, North Carolina, she was a former member of the Senior Choir and Pastor’s Aide Committee. Jannie enjoyed talking on the telephone, and with her love of flowers, spent many hours gardening.  She will be remembered for her wise disciplinarian advise to both young and old.

Jannie was also preceded in death by her husband, Ulas Chambers, who she was married to for over fifty years; her daughter, Loretta Chambers; siblings: Rodema Lilly, Henry Rush and Monroe Pemberton.

A legacy of love, admiration and devotion will forever remain in the hearts of her family and friends. Survivors include: daughters: Greatha Barrett, Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, Mary Brown, Badin, North Carolina, Edith (Jeffrey) Flake, Albemarle, North Carolina, Lantie Chambers, Mt. Gilead, North Carolina, Sonja White, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (a granddaughter who was reared in the home) and Shirley Martin, Norman, North Carolina (who was a special young lady that  Jannie loved as her own); sons: James (JoAnn) Rush, Star, North Carolina, William Chambers and Carl (Maline)Chambers both of Albemarle, North Carolina; special granddaughter and best friend, Takia Chambers;  twenty-five grandchildren; forty-eight great grandchildren; ten great great-grandchildren; special great-great-great niece, Tamia Little; an adopted family, Reverend Allen Warren and Family; a host of other relatives and friends.

“Who can find a virtuous woman?  For her price is far above rubies…. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.  Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.  Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”

                                                                                                Proverbs: 31:10, 28-30

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