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Virginia Rust

Virginia Rust, 93, of Wabash, IN, and having family in Warren, IN, died May 19, 2018, at 3:20 a.m., at Miller's Merry Manor East in Wabash.

Mrs. Rust was a 1942 graduate of Swayzee High School and a graduate of the Wayne University of Beauty Culture in Fort Wayne. She was a retired beautician and a homemaker. She was a member of the Lebanon United Methodist Church.

She was born July 15, 1924, in Grant County to Marshall R. and Grace M. Berry Spiker. She married Alfred Rust on Aug. 1, 1945, in Marion, and he preceded her in death on Nov. 28, 2002.

Survivors include a son, Gary Rust, of Wabash; a daughter, Cheryl (Tom) Panning, of Wabash; five grandchildren, Jennifer (Mike) Shrider, of Daphne, AL; Amy (Tony) Tapper, of Fort Wayne; Nichole (Jason) Voland, of Warren; Joel (Natalie) Rust, of Nappanee; and Rick (Katie) Panning, of Elkhart; nine great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held Monday, May 21, 2018, at 11:30 a.m. at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Ave., Wabash, with Herb Hughs officiating. Entombment will be in Chapel of Remembrance Mausoleum at Memorial Lawns Cemetery. Wabash.

Memorials are to Parkview Wabash Hospice.