Pauline Kernen Cummings

KERNEN, CUMMINGS, SPRING

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 10/1/2012 at 17:09:13

Mrs. Perry Cummings Dead
The community was very saddened when it was learned recently that Mrs. Perry Cummings condition was growing steady more serious sine the accident which she suffered several weeks ago and from which for a time she seemed to be recovering. Mrs. Cummings had made a brave effort to recover from the injury to her back which she suffered in the automobile accident in the Len Burris car which was struck by a gravel truck while on a trip to Shenandoah. The best of medical and surgical skill and the devotion of her family and friends proved of no avail, and last Saturday she was brought back to her home from the Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs after hope had been abandoned by her attending physicians. She died Sunday morning at about 12:15.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon, July 4, 1933 at the Ralph Roland Funeral Home at 2:00 p.m. conducted by Rev. Howard Congdon and a large crowd of sorrowing friends testified to the high esteem in which Mrs. Cummings was held in the community where she had been reared since a child. Interment was made in the Nodaway Cemetery.
Pauline Kernen Cummings, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Kernen, was born December 17, 1880 in Nodaway township and died July 3, 1933 at her home in Corning, Iowa, at the age of 52 years, 6 months, and 14 days. She was married to Perry Cummings April 9, 1902. She received her education in the rural schools of the county and her entire life had been spent in the Nodaway vicinity and in Corning.
Mrs. Cummings is survived by her husband, her aged mother and father, two sisters, Mrs. Clara Munson of Denver, Colorado, and Mrs. Louise rider of Nodaway; six brothers, Fred of Holdridge, Nebraska, John of Carbon, Iowa, Henry, Charles, William, and Bert all of Nodaway. She is also survived by a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends who sorrow with the family in their heart breaking loss.
The efficiency and charm of Mrs. Cummings was felt in many circles in Corning. She was a devoted member to the Federated Church and was loyal and true in every sense. Loyalty was her virtue to her home, her church, her clubs, and her many friends felt this rare quality in all their associations with her. She was a member of the O.D.O. Club. She loved beauty and her home and garden, which was so generously open to her church, her clubs, and her friends was a constant inspiration in the master of beauty and hospitality to the community.
It is difficult to estimate the sorrows which follow the death of this splendid woman. Every day will bring a reminder of the vacant places in which she served so ably. In no place will this be so felt more than in the home which she loved with so much devotion. Sympathy is extended to her husband and sorrowing family.
Adams County Free Press, July 6, 1933, page 5