Flora Cummings

CUMMINGS, ROBINSON, STURDIVANT, STEDMAN

Posted By: Jean Wenke, volunteer
Date: 3/11/2009 at 19:39:49

Mrs. Flora Cummings, 95 of Havana, Ill. Died Tuesday, July 7, 1964 at 10:45 a.m., at the hospital at Havana after three years illness. She was a former resident of the Bonaparte area until going to Havana four years ago.

She was born Oct. 4, 1869 at Chambersburg, Mo. She was married three times; first to Guy Sturdivant, who died in 1896, then to Ezra Robinson, who died in 1914. In 1917 she was married to James C. Cummings who died in 1949.

She was a member of the Bonaparte Baptist Church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gladys Stedman of Chillicothe, Ill., and Miss Hazel Robinson of Havana, Ill.; three grandchildren and three step-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and four sisters.

Services will be held Thursday, July 9 at 1 p.m., at the Bonaparte Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Bonaparte Cemetery. The body will be brought from Havana Thursday morning direct to the Baptist Church.

From Dorothy Watson's scrapbook, Bonaparte, Iowa Library