Marcella May Cummings
October 7, 1924 — June 18, 2007
Marcella M. Cummings of Eureka, Kansas, died on Monday, June 18, 2007, at the Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, Kansas at the age of 82.
She was born on October 7, 1924, in Toronto, Kansas, the daughter of Charlie O. and Stella M. (Guisinger) Benson. She was raised in the Greenwood County area and graduated from Fall River High School. She later attended Pittsburg State Teachers College and got her teachers certificate. She taught in the Greenwood County area. Marcella then stayed home to raise their four children. She worked as an accountant for the Rural Water District #2 for many years and taught genealogy at the Greenwood County Museum and Historical Society.
On December 26, 1945, she married Bill Cummings in Eureka. They made their home on a farm near Toronto Kansas.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Neal, the Greenwood County Historical Society and many other organizations in and around Greenwood.
She is survived by her husband Bill; son Clifford Cummings of Toronto, Kansas; daughters, Barbara Poettgen of San Antonio, Texas, Sharyl Cummings of Tucson, Arizona and Ethel Overstake of Wichita, Kansas; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Doris Blankley.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Thursday, June 21, 2007, at Koup Family Funeral Home with Pastor Mark Demas officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Memorials have been established in her name to the Greenwood County Historical Society Museum and the Neal United Methodist Church. Contributions may be sent in care of Koup Family Funeral Home at P.O. Box 595, Eureka, KS 67045
She was born on October 7, 1924, in Toronto, Kansas, the daughter of Charlie O. and Stella M. (Guisinger) Benson. She was raised in the Greenwood County area and graduated from Fall River High School. She later attended Pittsburg State Teachers College and got her teachers certificate. She taught in the Greenwood County area. Marcella then stayed home to raise their four children. She worked as an accountant for the Rural Water District #2 for many years and taught genealogy at the Greenwood County Museum and Historical Society.
On December 26, 1945, she married Bill Cummings in Eureka. They made their home on a farm near Toronto Kansas.
She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Neal, the Greenwood County Historical Society and many other organizations in and around Greenwood.
She is survived by her husband Bill; son Clifford Cummings of Toronto, Kansas; daughters, Barbara Poettgen of San Antonio, Texas, Sharyl Cummings of Tucson, Arizona and Ethel Overstake of Wichita, Kansas; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Doris Blankley.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Thursday, June 21, 2007, at Koup Family Funeral Home with Pastor Mark Demas officiating. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery.
Memorials have been established in her name to the Greenwood County Historical Society Museum and the Neal United Methodist Church. Contributions may be sent in care of Koup Family Funeral Home at P.O. Box 595, Eureka, KS 67045
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