Extracted from The Centreville Press (Centreville, AL)
Thursday, March 6, 1969

Final Rites Held For Thelma Dorriss Cummings

Mrs. Thelma Dorriss Cummings, 41, of Columbus, Georgia passed away February 28th, 1969 at her home in Columbus.

Funeral services were held Saturday, March 1st, 1969 at 4:00 P. M. (E.S.T.) at the Striffler Hamby Mortuary Chapel, Columbus, with the Reverend Sidney L. Waterhouse officiating.

Another service was held Sunday, March 2nd, at 3:00 P.M. (C.S.T.) at the First Baptist Church of West Blocton, Alabama with the Reverend Waterhouse of Columbus officiating and the Reverend P. F. McGuire of West Blocton assisting. Interment was held at Mount Carmel Cemetery.

Active pallbearers were James Edward Adams and Billy Claude Hayes of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Charles Glen West and Jerry M. Pope of Columbus, Georgia; James M. Lippeatt of West Blocton, Alabama and Thomas Richard Chapple of Birmingham, Alabama.

Honorary pallbearers were David W. Daughtry of Dothan, Alabama; Floyd Nelson Lippeatt, Kenneth Reach and Johnny Mack Reach of West Blocton, Alabama; Howard E. Jones, Lonnie Smith and James Boggs of Columbus, Georgia; Max Sumner of Tampa, Florida; and Dewey O. Deason of Merritt Island, Florida.

Born in Bibb County, Alabama on June 24, 1927, Mrs. Cummings is survived by her parents, John M. and Esther Hayes and one daughter, Linda Ann Cummings, all of Columbus, Georgia.