Ruth Mushock, 66, sunny in face of cancer

Ruth Mushock had a sunny personality that brightened a room, even when people in the room were holding a cancer support meeting.

“They were always glad to see her at her support groups. She had a happy, skipping type of personality,” said her husband, Rob Mushock of Lawrenceville.

Mrs. Mushock, 66, of Lawrenceville died Friday of lung cancer at Embracing Hospice House in Cumming. A memorial service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Lawrenceville. Wages & Sons Gwinnett Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Mushock loved to sing and was a soloist at St. Lawrence Catholic Church. She wrote poetry and was a gifted seamstress who started a custom drapery business after retiring a few years ago from Kilpatrick Stockton, where she was a legal secretary.

Mrs. Mushock, a nonsmoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. She joined several support groups and threw herself into fund-raising and raising awareness about cancer, her husband said.

Other survivors are a son, Robert Gluck of Atlanta; daughter, Amy Stevens of Loganville; brother, Russell Taft of Maui, Hawaii; sister, Barbara Pavese of Palm Harbor, Fla.; and two grandchildren.