Ellen Margaret Rush

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Sources

• "Paid Notice: Deaths: Rush, Stockton." The New York Times, published 7 January 2000. < link > Accessed 22 June 2023.
• "Wendy Weil Is the Bride of Engineer." The New York Times, published 6 July 1986. < link > Accessed 22 June 2023.

Her Son from the NY Times July 6, 1986, Section 1, Page 35

Wendy Hollings Weil, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Weil 3d of Denver, was married yesterday to Richard Stockton Rush 3d, a son of Ellen Davies Rush of San Francisco and Mr. Rush Jr. of Westminster, Vt. The Rev. George B. Edgar, the bride's great-uncle, performed the Presbyterian ceremony at the Vail (Colo.) Chapel.

Jean Hellen Weinberg was the maid of honor. John Christian Stauffer was the best man.

Mrs. Rush, a licensed pilot and a substitute teacher in the Lancaster (Calif.) school system, was formerly an account manager with Ladd Associates in San Francisco, a consultant to magazine publishers. She graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Princeton University. Her father is professor of surgery and director of transplantation at the University of Colorado Medical School. Her mother, Polly Weil, is a partner in the Denver interior design firm of Reynolds & Weil. The bride is a granddaughter of Mrs. Arthur B. Griffin Jr. of Stuart, Fla., and the late Richard Weil Jr., who was president of Macy's New York.

Mr. Rush, an aerospace engineer for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton. He is a grandson of Mrs. Ralph K. Davies of San Francisco, for whom the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall is named, and the late Mr. Davies, chairman of the American President Lines, and of Deborah Brock Rush of Philadelphia. His father is chairman of the Peregrine Oil and Gas Company in Burlingame, Calif., and the Natomas Company in San Francisco.