----Source: Greenwood Gleaner 4/10/1931

OBITUARY OF J. A. CUMMINGS

Joseph Alton Cummings, young farmer of the Lindsay community died at a local hospital last Thursday following a goiter operation. He had been seriously ill for over a month.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon from Koch Huebl funeral chapel with Rev. Bert Powell officiating. Miss Idamae Meyers and Mrs. J. W. Heath sang Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me and Abide With Me. The pall bearers were George Schultz, Byard Patterson, Ralph Harrison, Leonard Quammen, Russell Lewis and Dick Sears. Interment was in the local cemetery.

The deceased was born in Greenwood, Clark County, Wis. on May 21, 1930( Obviously a misprint) and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cummings, came to Dawson County in 1909, where he has since resided. He was graduated from the Lindsay School, after which he worked in Glendive. During the winter of 1920 and 1921 he clerked in Douglas Mead's and also worked for Dick Statham in the garage. He was always quiet and reserved, yet always cheerful and considerate of the happiness and welfare of others and thus endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact, which was shown by the numerous and beautiful floral offerings.

In June of 1926 he was married to Frances Helen Larson of Glendive. To this union were born two children, Raymond Owen, who passed away a few weeks after birth and a daughter, Dorothy Jean, now two years old.

Besides his wife and daughter, he is survived by his parents, two sisters, Mrs. R. A. Newton of Union and Mrs. A.D. Snow of Nashville, Tenn., a brother Clarence Cumming of Lindsay.

Out of town relatives in attendance at the funeral included Mr. and Mrs. Jahn Arends of Greenwood, Wis., Mrs. Harry Livesay of Neillsville, Wis., Mrs. Hattie Scheuble of Kildeer, N. D., C. A. Larson of Dickinson and Miss Ella Cuskelly of Dickinson. Mrs. Snow, a sister, of Nashville, Tenn., was unable to attend on account of illness in her family and Ralph A. Newton, who was in Iowa, was also unable to return in time for the funeral (Dawson County Review, Glendive, Montana).

Mr. Cummings is a nephew of Mrs. John Arends, Mrs. O. C. Behrens and Miss Rue Cummings of this city.