Dorcas Cummings-Waye

Dorcas Cummings-Waye

Dorcas Cummings-Waye Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Aug. 25, 2007.
CUMMINGS-WAYE Dorcas Cummings-Waye of Egg Harbor Township, 80 Dorcas B. Cummings-Waye, 80, of Egg Harbor Township died on Aug. 22, 2007, at Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point. Services will be held on Monday, Aug. 27, 2007, at 11 a.m. at Mount Teman A.M.E. Church, 160 Madison Ave., Elizabeth. Visitation is Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment is in Rosehill Cemetery, Linden. Arrangements are in the loving care of the Nesbitt Funeral Home, 165 Madison Ave., Elizabeth. Born in Wilmington, N.C., Mrs. Cummings-Waye lived in Elizabeth before moving to Egg Harbor Township in 1983. She is survived by her husband, DeWitt Waye; daughters, Deborah Bailey and Edith Rodgers, and a son, Hilary Waye; her sisters, Irene Fullwood, Phyllis Ennels and Lillian Leach; seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.

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