Community gathers in remembrance of Penny Rust

     Close to 100 people came together at the First Grace Baptist Church in Sheffield Feb. 17 to remember a woman who’d impacted them greatly.

     A wife and mother of four, 37-year-old Penny Rust died in a collision the evening before. Her van hit a semi’s trailer that had failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Highway 65 and 190th street, according to the accident report.

     Rust was a Rockwell native and Rockwell-Swaledale graduate. She married Ben Rust in 1999 at the First Grace Baptist Church, where Pastor Ken Livingston said she was “an integral part of our church.”

     “She had a strong faith in the Lord Jesus,” he said, “which gives us hope in a tragic time like this.”

     She helped with Bible studies, Vacation Bible School, Sunday School and youth ministries.

     Read the full article in the Feb. 25 edition of the papers.