This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Lace_Lynch Surnames: Mayberry Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.afam.ms/1455/mb.ashx Message Board Post: ERIE, PA. - Services will be at 1 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, at the Second Baptist Church, 757 East 26th Street, Erie, Pa., for Mr. John Walter Bush Jr., 83, who departed this life Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, at the home of his daughter in Youngstown after a lengthy illness. Mr. Bush, affectionately known as "Bush" and "Lil Buddy," was born March 11, 1927, in Macon, Mississippi (Noxubee County) a son of John W., Sr. and Emma Tate Bush. He had been employed as a machinist with Lord Corporation, retiring in 1995. He attended the Second Baptist Church in Erie, pa.. He leaves a daughter, Lue Bertha Tate of Youngstown, Ohio; a son, Tommie Dunlap, Glenwood, Illinois; three sisters, Annette Stewart and Emma Lou Mayberry, both of Macon, Miss. and Ruby Hampton of Chicago; four brothers, L. B. Bush and James Earl Bush, both of Macon, Rufus Bush of Erie and Sammie Bush of Chicago; a son-in-law, Demetrius Riddle of Youngstown; seven grandchildren, Rodney (Sheila) Tate, Albert C. Tate Jr., Charity C. (Willie) Tate-Young, Melissa Y. Tate, Kimberly Dunlap, Dyneen (Dwight) Jackson and Tareisha Dunlap; 15 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a host of family and friends. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, the former Corean Weaver, whom he married Dec. 25, 1947, and who passed away April 1, 2007; a son, John W. Bush III; and six brothers, Roosevelt, Robert, Willie Wallace, Harrison, Bennie and Nathaniel. Friends may view from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the L.E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home, 1951 McGuffey Road, Youngstown, OHIO 44505 and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday at the Second Baptist Church in Erie, Pa. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.