MY MOTHER ❤️
Mrs. Cummings Rites Set;
Mrs. Holmes Cummings. 42, was prounced dead on arrival at King's Daughters Hospital shortly after 7a.m.. Wednesday. Mrs. Cummings died of pistol wounds in the chest, it was reported. Sheriff Joe Brueck informed the Leader Advertiser as it went to press that he could not say, pending investigation, whether Mrs. Cummings death was the result of self-inflicted wounds or whether the death was accidental. No inquest was held as far as the Leader- Advertiser could determine at 12 noon.
It was learned that Mrs. Cummings was at her home on Enterprise road at the time of the shooting. The only other occupant in the home was her husband Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings, owner of Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cummings. the former Viola Townsend, will be held Friday at two o'clock from Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Easthaven Cemetery.
A lifelong resident of Brookhaven, Mrs. Cummings was employed as bookkeeper for Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company. At one time she operated a downtown café in Brookhaven on Railroad Avenue. She was a member of Southway Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband, and a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Arnold of La Rose La; her parents, Ira H. and Rebecca Pennington Townsend of Brookhaven; a sister, Mrs. Robert O. Eagan of Coral Gables, Florida, and two grandchildren.
Source- Leader Advertiser 1-25-1965
OFFICIATING CLERGYMEN:
Rev. L.C. Brown, Rev. Ellis Smith, and Rev Paul Woodford
SPECIAL SONG COLLECTIONS:
No tears in Heaven, Beyond the sunset, by Rex Sanders and family.
BEARERS:
Freddie Bessonette
Gordon Freeman
A.R. ( Blackie)Johnson
Lonnie Rogers
Vernon Cade/ most likely surname Case
Charles Williams
CARD OF THANKS:
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend and family wish to express their appreciation for many kindnesses extended to them during the death of Mrs. Cummings. We are also grateful for the many kindnesses extended to Mrs. Townsend while she was a patient at King's Daughter hospital during the death of her daughter , Mrs. Cummings.
Particularly we wish to thank the Doctors and nurses at the Hospital and the Brookhaven Funeral Home.
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings & Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend
SORUCE- Leader- Advertiser, Brookhaven, Mississippi dated March 4-1965.
Notes:
My Mother:
Honor graduate at East Lincoln High School, Brookhaven, MS.
Worked at the Inez Cafe, Brookhaven, MS, in the 1940s.
Her first marriage, to my Dad, James Manon Davis, from this union, one child was born, Patricia Lyn Davis, November, 21 1942.
Mrs. Cummings Rites Set;
Mrs. Holmes Cummings. 42, was prounced dead on arrival at King's Daughters Hospital shortly after 7a.m.. Wednesday. Mrs. Cummings died of pistol wounds in the chest, it was reported. Sheriff Joe Brueck informed the Leader Advertiser as it went to press that he could not say, pending investigation, whether Mrs. Cummings death was the result of self-inflicted wounds or whether the death was accidental. No inquest was held as far as the Leader- Advertiser could determine at 12 noon.
It was learned that Mrs. Cummings was at her home on Enterprise road at the time of the shooting. The only other occupant in the home was her husband Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings, owner of Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cummings. the former Viola Townsend, will be held Friday at two o'clock from Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Easthaven Cemetery.
A lifelong resident of Brookhaven, Mrs. Cummings was employed as bookkeeper for Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company. At one time she operated a downtown café in Brookhaven on Railroad Avenue. She was a member of Southway Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband, and a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Arnold of La Rose La; her parents, Ira H. and Rebecca Pennington Townsend of Brookhaven; a sister, Mrs. Robert O. Eagan of Coral Gables, Florida, and two grandchildren.
Source- Leader Advertiser 1-25-1965
OFFICIATING CLERGYMEN:
Rev. L.C. Brown, Rev. Ellis Smith, and Rev Paul Woodford
SPECIAL SONG COLLECTIONS:
No tears in Heaven, Beyond the sunset, by Rex Sanders and family.
BEARERS:
Freddie Bessonette
Gordon Freeman
A.R. ( Blackie)Johnson
Lonnie Rogers
Vernon Cade/ most likely surname Case
Charles Williams
CARD OF THANKS:
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend and family wish to express their appreciation for many kindnesses extended to them during the death of Mrs. Cummings. We are also grateful for the many kindnesses extended to Mrs. Townsend while she was a patient at King's Daughter hospital during the death of her daughter , Mrs. Cummings.
Particularly we wish to thank the Doctors and nurses at the Hospital and the Brookhaven Funeral Home.
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings & Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend
SORUCE- Leader- Advertiser, Brookhaven, Mississippi dated March 4-1965.
Notes:
My Mother:
Honor graduate at East Lincoln High School, Brookhaven, MS.
Worked at the Inez Cafe, Brookhaven, MS, in the 1940s.
Her first marriage, to my Dad, James Manon Davis, from this union, one child was born, Patricia Lyn Davis, November, 21 1942.
MY MOTHER ❤️
Mrs. Cummings Rites Set;
Mrs. Holmes Cummings. 42, was prounced dead on arrival at King's Daughters Hospital shortly after 7a.m.. Wednesday. Mrs. Cummings died of pistol wounds in the chest, it was reported. Sheriff Joe Brueck informed the Leader Advertiser as it went to press that he could not say, pending investigation, whether Mrs. Cummings death was the result of self-inflicted wounds or whether the death was accidental. No inquest was held as far as the Leader- Advertiser could determine at 12 noon.
It was learned that Mrs. Cummings was at her home on Enterprise road at the time of the shooting. The only other occupant in the home was her husband Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings, owner of Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cummings. the former Viola Townsend, will be held Friday at two o'clock from Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Easthaven Cemetery.
A lifelong resident of Brookhaven, Mrs. Cummings was employed as bookkeeper for Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company. At one time she operated a downtown café in Brookhaven on Railroad Avenue. She was a member of Southway Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband, and a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Arnold of La Rose La; her parents, Ira H. and Rebecca Pennington Townsend of Brookhaven; a sister, Mrs. Robert O. Eagan of Coral Gables, Florida, and two grandchildren.
Source- Leader Advertiser 1-25-1965
OFFICIATING CLERGYMEN:
Rev. L.C. Brown, Rev. Ellis Smith, and Rev Paul Woodford
SPECIAL SONG COLLECTIONS:
No tears in Heaven, Beyond the sunset, by Rex Sanders and family.
BEARERS:
Freddie Bessonette
Gordon Freeman
A.R. ( Blackie)Johnson
Lonnie Rogers
Vernon Cade/ most likely surname Case
Charles Williams
CARD OF THANKS:
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend and family wish to express their appreciation for many kindnesses extended to them during the death of Mrs. Cummings. We are also grateful for the many kindnesses extended to Mrs. Townsend while she was a patient at King's Daughter hospital during the death of her daughter , Mrs. Cummings.
Particularly we wish to thank the Doctors and nurses at the Hospital and the Brookhaven Funeral Home.
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings & Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend
SORUCE- Leader- Advertiser, Brookhaven, Mississippi dated March 4-1965.
Notes:
My Mother:
Honor graduate at East Lincoln High School, Brookhaven, MS.
Worked at the Inez Cafe, Brookhaven, MS, in the 1940s.
Her first marriage, to my Dad, James Manon Davis, from this union, one child was born, Patricia Lyn Davis, November, 21 1942.
Mrs. Cummings Rites Set;
Mrs. Holmes Cummings. 42, was prounced dead on arrival at King's Daughters Hospital shortly after 7a.m.. Wednesday. Mrs. Cummings died of pistol wounds in the chest, it was reported. Sheriff Joe Brueck informed the Leader Advertiser as it went to press that he could not say, pending investigation, whether Mrs. Cummings death was the result of self-inflicted wounds or whether the death was accidental. No inquest was held as far as the Leader- Advertiser could determine at 12 noon.
It was learned that Mrs. Cummings was at her home on Enterprise road at the time of the shooting. The only other occupant in the home was her husband Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings, owner of Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company.
Funeral services for Mrs. Cummings. the former Viola Townsend, will be held Friday at two o'clock from Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Easthaven Cemetery.
A lifelong resident of Brookhaven, Mrs. Cummings was employed as bookkeeper for Cummings Oilfield Hauling Company. At one time she operated a downtown café in Brookhaven on Railroad Avenue. She was a member of Southway Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband, and a daughter, Mrs. Patricia Arnold of La Rose La; her parents, Ira H. and Rebecca Pennington Townsend of Brookhaven; a sister, Mrs. Robert O. Eagan of Coral Gables, Florida, and two grandchildren.
Source- Leader Advertiser 1-25-1965
OFFICIATING CLERGYMEN:
Rev. L.C. Brown, Rev. Ellis Smith, and Rev Paul Woodford
SPECIAL SONG COLLECTIONS:
No tears in Heaven, Beyond the sunset, by Rex Sanders and family.
BEARERS:
Freddie Bessonette
Gordon Freeman
A.R. ( Blackie)Johnson
Lonnie Rogers
Vernon Cade/ most likely surname Case
Charles Williams
CARD OF THANKS:
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend and family wish to express their appreciation for many kindnesses extended to them during the death of Mrs. Cummings. We are also grateful for the many kindnesses extended to Mrs. Townsend while she was a patient at King's Daughter hospital during the death of her daughter , Mrs. Cummings.
Particularly we wish to thank the Doctors and nurses at the Hospital and the Brookhaven Funeral Home.
Holmes ( Preacher) Cummings & Mr. and Mrs. Ira H. Townsend
SORUCE- Leader- Advertiser, Brookhaven, Mississippi dated March 4-1965.
Notes:
My Mother:
Honor graduate at East Lincoln High School, Brookhaven, MS.
Worked at the Inez Cafe, Brookhaven, MS, in the 1940s.
Her first marriage, to my Dad, James Manon Davis, from this union, one child was born, Patricia Lyn Davis, November, 21 1942.
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