Mable Aleene Cunningham

Mable Aleene Cunningham obituary, Van, TX

Mable Aleene Cunningham

Mable Cunningham Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Hilliard Funeral Home, Fairway Crematory & Memorial Gardens - Van on May 28, 2025.
A visitation will be held for Aleene Cunningham from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 5, 2025 at Hilliard Funeral Home.
Mable Aleene Childers Cunningham was born August 17, 1928, in Brady, Texas. She had been a resident of Tyler most of her life, where she owned a house-cleaning business and was a seamstress. She had a natural green thumb and loved to work in her flower garden.
Aleene passed away at the age of 96 on May 23, 2025. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas Calvin Childers and Ella May Thomas Childers, and grandson, Jonathan George.
Survivors include her three children, Bonnie Daniel of Temple, James "Jim" Cunningham of Houston, and Gary Cunningham of Austin; grandchildren and their spouses, Carla & Don Harrison, Quintin Lines, Kerry & Ralph Alberico, Kori & Elbert Robinson, Kristy & Tommy Stark, Jimmy Paul & Timmy Cunningham, and Ian & Amber Cunningham; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

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