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A Tribute to Normalcy, a Recognition
of Class, a Knight of Generosity
Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III
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We sponsored Rush's "Rush to Excellence Tour" back in 1989 when he was doing the sell-out crowd-pleasers in numerous medium-sized and even some large venues. It required a security check and a check for 1,250 American dollars…drawn from four different sponsors who were all conservative, preferably GOP members-in-good-standing, and who could lease the entire McAllen Civic Centre for the early evening up to the witching hour.
Before that event, Rush was hosted at a luncheon given by by notable Republicans and conservative types at the "Big Bank" in McAllen…(actually a sizeable, 17 story building in the middle of downtown). Rush received about twenty people there, including my boss…The Wife and my mother.
Later my mother and god-mother attended the Rush to Excellence Show, which delighted them and about 4,200 attendees…far and away the largest group to attend a function at the McAllen Civic Centre.
My wife and I had determined to let the "older ladies" enjoy the moment since both were widowed, but still very active. My mother, having lived in the Lower Rio Grande Valley from 1926…and in or adjacent to McAllen since 1936 still had a lot of old friends there. She and my father had moved to Austin back in 1965 because my father had been given several choices of very prime positions in his profession…psychology…and they had decided to strike the tent and move to the land of Higher Cotton in Central Texas.
It was of some interest when I pointed out to my mother, after she reviewed the courtesy photos taken by the Rush people and my wife, that Rush Limbaugh looked remarkably like her brother, William Grant Neal, and they were more or less the same age.
Later I learned that Uncle Billy's grandfather was the son of Asa Grant and Amelia (Meli) Limbaugh. This would mean that Uncle Billy and my two brothers and I were all first cousins, three times removed together as it pertains to our relation to Rush Limbaugh and his brother David.
This descent was based upon the Saxony / Prussian immigrant who arrived in America in the 1830's, one George Frederick Limbaugh, who served in Washington's Army at the gruelling Valley Forge winter of 1777. George was the XO of a Battalion of primarily German speaking, eastern Teutonic people. George Frederick had middling title in terms of aristocratic lineage, but truly wanted to move to the New Lands to the west (America). His progeny in America was and is noteworthy and noble.
This descent was based upon the Saxony / Prussian immigrant who arrived in America in the 1830's, one George Frederick Limbaugh, who served in Washington's Army at the gruelling Valley Forge winter of 1777. George was the XO of a Battalion of primarily German speaking, eastern Teutonic people. George Frederick had middling title in terms of aristocratic lineage, but truly wanted to move to the New Lands to the west (America). His progeny in America was and is noteworthy and noble.
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David Scott Limbaugh,
Rush's younger brother
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During these times of lament, we also enjoy the fact that these people are neither distant nor close relatives, and that they were and are people who carried great affection and dedication to the fact that they were Americans, through and through.
We shall light our Anglican candles and read our ancient orders of the Episcopal way…while we await his restoration in the days to come for Rush and his people. We hope for his quick restoration and return to the work he has done so well.
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