Ruby Lee Cummings

Services for Ruby Lee Cummings, 81, of Lufkin, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, May 12, 2006, in the Gipson-Metcalf Funeral Home Chapel, with Reverend Carol C. Turner officiating. Interment will follow in the Whitehouse Cemetery. Mrs. Cummings was born November 9, 1924, in Houston County, Texas, the daughter of the late Josie (Faulkner) and Edgar Simpson. She passed away Tuesday, May 9, 2006, in a local hospital. Mrs. Cummings was a devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was retired from Montgomery Ward, where she was a telephone supervisor. Mrs. Cummings was a member of First United Methodist Church. Survivors include her husband, Russell B. Cummings of Lufkin; daughters and sons-in-law, Patti and Wayne Corcoran of Huntsville and Jo Nell and David Treadaway of Broaddus; grandsons, Rusty Corcoran of Huntsville and Jon Treadaway of Kingwood; granddaughter and her husband, Tracie and Mel Morris of Amarillo; great grandchildren, Aspen, Brecken and Creeden Morris, all of Amarillo; sisters, May Bell Fischer of Corsicana, Marie Ellis of Houston and Sandra Kosiba of Houston; brothers, Mac Dean Simpson of Austin and Paul Thomas Simpson of Latexo; and a number of nieces, nephews and many loving friends and neighbors. Pallbearers will be Jerry Sizemore, Dick McKay, Mark Pope, Allen (Buddy) Rush, Bob Putnam, Trout Felts and Bill Royle. Honorary pallbearers will be George Taylor, Cesley Higgins, Robert Poland, Jeff Jefferson, Cleo Johnson, Hubert Lankford and Charles Cummings, Jr. Memorials may be made to Hospice in the Pines, 116 S. Raguet, Lufkin, Texas 75904. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday evening at Gipson-Metcalf Funeral Home. Gipson-Metcalf Funeral Directors; John Kennedy, director