Mrs. Helen L. Cummings
1893-1965
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen L. Cummings, 72, of 715 N. 4th St., will be conducted at 2 p.m., Wednesday in the Pifer Funeral Home. The Rev. Earl J. Wickstrom, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. She died at 9:25 p.m., Sunday in Pawating Hospital, where she had been a patient since July 17.
Mrs. Cummings was born April 3, 1893, in Michigan City, Ind. and came to Niles from that city in 1922. Her husband, Quincy, died in 1954.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Yvonne Hanson and Mrs. Joan Wright, both of Niles; two sons, Quincy Jr., Niles, and Theodore, Davenport, Iowa; a brother, George Schwager, Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Alma Wandry, Niles; and 13 grandchildren.
She was a member of the Golden Age Club, the War Mothers, and the Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Trainmen.
Friends will be received at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.
(Source: Niles Daily Star, Monday, August 16, 1965, page 2, col. 6, cont. Page 13, col. 7, microfilm Niles District Library)
