June 23, 2005

Edna Cummins

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Edna Mae Cummins, 73, of Sikeston died Wednesday, June 22, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 31, 1931, in Mount Pleasant, Texas, daughter of True Bardo and Ather Leo Dethridge Whorton. She and Charles J. Cummins were married Sept. 7, 1948, in Piggott, Ark...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Edna Mae Cummins, 73, of Sikeston died Wednesday, June 22, 2005, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born Oct. 31, 1931, in Mount Pleasant, Texas, daughter of True Bardo and Ather Leo Dethridge Whorton. She and Charles J. Cummins were married Sept. 7, 1948, in Piggott, Ark.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Connie Sherrod and Phyllis Hale of Sikeston; a brother, Kenneth Whorton of Marion, Ark.; a sister, Iva Jewel Lynn of Chaffee, Mo.; three granddaughters; and three great-grandchildren.

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She was preceded in death by five brothers.

Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel from 5 to 8 p.m. today.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the chapel, with the Rev. Randy Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Sikeston.

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