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© The Tuttle Times Tuttle, Oklahoma October 8, 2008 December 31, 1926 ~ October 1, 2008 Funeral service for Ralph W. Cummings, age 81 of Tuttle, Oklahoma was held Monday, October 6, 2008 at the First Assembly of God Church in Tuttle. Ralph Cummings was born to Silas and Cordelia Cummings on December 31, 1926 in Fox, Arkansas. He was called home on October 1, 2008. He married Sharon Valley on June 27, l975 in El Reno, Oklahoma. Ralph lived the Tuttle area for most of his life. He served in the U.S. Army and retired from Tinker Air Force Base after completing 37 and-a-half years of service. He loved bowling and managed many bowling houses in Oklahoma City. At one time, he built and ran a worm hatchery and sold bait to all the bait houses around Oklahoma lakes. He spent a lot of time doing the interior trim in houses. He cut wood and sold it, planted cantaloupe and okra and sold it, he even drove a semi-truck after the age of 60 and hauled rock. He loved his kids and grandkids and spent a lot of time in the bleachers of basketball, football and baseball games. He loved gospel music and Elvis. He spent his younger years in the Pentecostal Churches around Tuttle and won several competitions on who could bring the most people to church. He sang around Tuttle in church singings and could still hold a tune up until the end of his life. Sharon and Ralph belonged to the Seventh Day Adventist Church for the last 33 years in Chickasha and in Moore for the last few years. He and Sharon were always visiting the sick and dying. He never net a stranger and he never saw your faults. He loved his wife and they spent many a night home with his puppies playing Yatzee and watching John Wayne movies. He is going to be missed by all who knew him, aunts, uncles, cousins, brothers, sister, dogs and others who were brought into his life by friends and relatives. He was a loving husband and the best daddy ever. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother Harlus Cummings of Tuttle and one sister Edith Coleman of Moore. Ralph is survived by his wife Sharon of 33 years, two daughters, Cathy Kaler and husband Danny of Tuttle, Sheila Stevens of Nashville, Tenn., one son, Frank Valley and wife Sandy of Choctaw, four brothers, Harlon Cummings and wife Tilly of Newcastle, Milburn Cummings and wife Ava of Tuttle, Boyle Cummings and Gretchen of Yukon and Donald Ray Cummings and wife Joanne of Tuttle; two sisters Deloris Coley and husband Lawrence of Del City, Armenta Drew of Durant; grandchildren, Scotty Kaler of Midwest City, Bryan Kaler and wife Taneil of Norman, Michelle Woods and husband Paul of Nashville, Michael Sadler Jr. and wife Amanda of Nashville, Robert Valley of Choctaw, Frank Valley Jr. of Choctaw, Nicholas Valley, of Choctaw, Samantha Valley of Choctaw, Austin Taylor of Oklahoma City; great grandchildren, Taylor Woods, Shelby Sadler, and Michael Sadler III, all of Nashville and Charlie Kaler of Norman. Interment was in Fairview Cemetery in Tuttle under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home. |
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