Obit of Cuma Elloree Sadler Summers (s562) - Roger Mills County, OK Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 31 Aug 2002 ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ========================================================================= Surnames: Summers, Sadler, Boon, Briggs, Stephen, McMilllan Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/5014 Message Board Post: Cuma Elloree Sadler Summers was born on April 11, 1896, at Hamburg, Oklahoma. She was the youngest of five children born to Edna Virginia Jarrett and Elijah Boon Sadler. On October 17, 1918, she was united in marriage to James Earl Summers at the Baptist parsonage at Bethany, Missouri. They spent their life together on the Summers family farm until the built their retirement home at Coffey, Missouri. Cama professed her faith in Christ at an early age at a community church at Hamburg, Oklahoma. She was baptized and rededicated at the Coffey United Methoidst Church on February 8, 1976, and was a faithful member until her last illness. After becoming a charter member of the Coffey Chapter No. 181 of the Eastern Star, she served in all of the offices including Worthy Matron. Cuma and her deceased husband, Earl, will long be remembered for their loylaty to that order. She was also a loyal member of the Rebekah Lodge and Earl was a member of the related organization, the Odd Fellows. Cuma passed away on September 7, 1982 at the Gentry County Hospital in Albany, Missouri. She was 86 years, 4 months and 26 days of age. Cuma was preceded in death by her husband, Earl, on June 10, 1977 and her brothers, Earl and Emil Sadler and sister, Ethel Salder. Cuma is survived by her sister, Eva Briggs of Cheyenne, her son, James Earl Summers, Jr. and his wife, Beulah of Topeka, Kansas, her step-son Gordon and his wife, Lucille, of Pattonsburg, Missouri, and five grandchildren. They are Shirley Summers Chambertain of Patchogue, Long Island, New York, Dr. James Stephen Summers of St. Louis, Missouri, Max Summers of Maitland, Missouri, and Beverly Summers McMillan of Independence, Missouri. She is also survived by twelve great grandchildren, nieces and nephews and other relatives Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK