Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Arthur W. Cunningham ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Subject: A. W. Cunningham Arthur W. Cunningham Arthur W. Cunningham, age 72, of Elmira, New York, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, August 27, 2003 at Nicholas H. Noyes Memorial Hospital, in Dansville, NY. He was born March 3, 1931, at Carrollton, Texas, the son of the late Rev. Arthur W. Cunningham, who pastored in Celeste, and Julia Bethel Carloss Cunningham. Arthur was predeceased by his wife, Carol Elwood Cunningham, in July of 2000. He is survived by daughter, Melissa Cunningham Borger and Paul Borger of Binghamton, New York; son, Wade Cunningham of Elmira, New York; grandaughter, Patricia Borger of Binghamton, New York; three brothers, Wade Cunningham of Desota, Eugene Cunningham of Bonham and Leeman Cunningham of Plano; three sisters, Ruth Robertson of Austin, Mildred Shepherd of Wills Point, and Rosalee McNeeley of Sherman; and several nieces and nephews. Arthur was a 1950 CHS graduate. Arthur retired from the US Air Force in 1972 after twenty years of proud service to his country. He then worked for and retired from LRC in 1995 after several years of dedicated service and has since enjoyed gardening and his cats. Funeral services will be September 2, 2003 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM. Rev. Donald Rockwell will be officiating. Interment will be in Forest Lawn Memoral Park, Elmira on Wednesday September 3, 2003. Thank you for sending this to the paper. We left last Sat and got back today. We went Amtrak which was a good way to go since Leeman did not need to be driving that far. The only thing that was a problem was when you change trains in Chicago, there is a long wait for the next train. We people watched and made a fun thing out of it. We were the only Cunningham's able healthwise to make the trip. It was sad. The VA hospital decided that it was time to put a tube through the stomack area into the bladder so that the urine could drain into a bag instead of a catherater. The VA picked him up and had to go to Buffalo, NY to the hospital there for day surgery (a four-hour trip). When he arrived, they found he had a kidney infection, but they went on and did the day surgery. On the way back home, (another four-hour trip) his heart stopped. They got the heart to beating again and took him to the nearest hospital in Dansville, NY and put him on life support. They could not get his blood pressure to come back up and the next day, they took the life support off of him and he died. He was probably in a comma all this time. Delma Cunningham