David Cummings

DAVID CUMMINGS

Anamosa

David Cummings, 86, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015, at his home in Fairview following an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, where friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Interment will be in the Wilcox Cemetery, Viola, with military honors. Carla Burge will officiate at the services.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Surviving are three children, Doug (Deb) Cummings of Monona, Wis., Sandi (Jerry) Martin and Nancy (Gus) Lachnit, both of Baltimore, Md.; a son-in-law, Randy Watson of Boone; six grandchildren, Matt, Wes, Tyler, Hannah, Julia and Leah; three great-grandchildren, John, Keara and Zoe; three sisters, Nelda Bettes of Anamosa, Carrie Hart of Tucson, Ariz., and Margaret Peiffer of Cedar Rapids; two sisters-in-law, Betty (Ray) Gogel of Ventura and Kathy (Dennis) Hansen of Anamosa; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Charlene in 1988; a daughter, Cindy Cummings-Watson; a son, Tim; and his special friend of 25 years, Dolores Tjaden.

David Leroy Cummings was born Aug. 18, 1929, in Fairview, Iowa. He was the son of Hiram and Mildred Raymond Cummings. David attended Fairview schools. He started working as a truck driver at a young age. David served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was an airplane mechanic in the Philippines. David married Charlene Pegump on June 26, 1953, at the First Baptist Church, Anamosa. He drove a truck for Siebels Trucking before he started working at Quaker Oats in Cedar Rapids in 1954. David retired from Quaker Oats in 1989 after 35 years of employment. Dave and Dale Gerst operated the D&D Auction House in Fairview for a number of years.

David was a member of the Fairview Community Club, the Quaker Oats Old Timers Group and the Izaak Walton League. He loved to go fishing, mushroom and deer hunting. He was an avid gardener and canned a lot of his produce.