Katherine "Kay" Maybelle Roush

Roush, Katherine Maybelle (Kay) passed away in Bastrop, Texas on May 24, 2010 after a brief illness.   She was born in Bay City, Texas, on March 26, 1922.   Preceded in death by her sisters, Genelle Halferty Kaufman and Doris Croft, and brothers Thomas Lewis and Lowell Lewis, she is survived by her husband, Roscoe Marion Roush, Jr., two sons and their wives, Guy Russell (Russ) Roush and Kerri Fields Roush of Bastrop, and Ronald (Ron) Roush and Suzanne Roush of La Mirada, California, and two grandchildren, Curtis Roush of Austin and Courtney Roush of Round Rock, plus nieces, nephews and cousins in California.   Kay grew up in Sealy, Texas, and met Roscoe in Galveston during World War II, while he was serving in the Coast Guard.  They were married in Shawnee, Oklahoma on December 12, 1944, after which Roscoe re-joined his Coast Guard cutter.  Kay worked for the U.S. Army Engineers as a printer during the war.  After Roscoe was discharged from the service, they moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he attended the University of Colorado and where their son Ron was born in 1947.   During the rest of her life, Kay was a homemaker.  In 1948, Roscoe joined the civil service at Tinker Air Force Base as a radar repair general foreman in Oklahoma City, where Guy was born in 1957.   In 1960, Roscoe joined Rockwell International, a spacecraft contractor, as a testing engineer, so Kay and Roscoe moved to La Mirada, California and lived there many years, but returned to Texas in 1994, living in Round Rock and then Bastrop.  Kay and Roscoe were very happily married for 65 years.  Kay was active and happy until her death.  She was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother and deeply loved.  No funeral service is planned, but memorials may be made to River Valley Christian Fellowship in Bastrop.