Charlotte B. Cummings
Charlotte Belle Hollister Cummings, 85, of Marietta, formerly of Hastings, WV, died on Saturday, May 5, 2012.
She was born on October 17, 1926, in Wilsonburg, WV, to the late Charles T. Hollister and Mildred Marie Steinkerchner. Charlotte graduated from Bristol High School as a member of the Class of 1945. She also was a graduate of West Virginia Business College. She was a former employee of The Carnation Milk Factory, Princess Dress Shop and Lerner’s of Clarksburg and was employed by the Hope Natural Gas Company from 1947 – 1957 as a statistical typist. Charlotte was a Past Member of the Pine Garden Club, Pine Grove, WV, a lifetime member of the State Garden Club of West Virginia, a member of the Vienna Garden Club, Vienna, WV, the Ikebana Garden Club, Parkersburg, WV, and was an honorary member of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs.
Charlotte was preceded in death by her husband LaVey Logue Cummings whom she married on August 17, 1957. She was also preceded in death by an infant son, Mark Allen, and a sister Doris Jean Hollister.
She is survived by a son, Darren Bryce Cummings of Scott Depot, WV and a daughter DeAnn Lynne Cummings of Sardis, OH; grandchildren: Rachel Nicole Cummings, Sarah Katherine Cummings and Alexander Grant Cummings and a great granddaughter Laveya Belle Cummings.
Visitation will be held on Monday (May 7) from 2-4 & 6-8 at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home, 314 Fourth Street, Marietta, OH, and on Tuesday (May 8) at the Davis-Weaver Funeral Home, 329 E. Main Street, Clarksburg, WV, from 11-2 with the service following at 2:00 pm at the funeral home. Burial will follow in Green Lawn Cemetery in Clarksburg. Messages of sympathy may be sent at: www.mslfuneralhome.com.