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Benny Ray Cummings © Enid News and Eagle 09-27-2007 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
A memorial service for Benny “Ben” Ray Cummings, 77, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Emmanuel Baptist Church. The Rev. Wade Burleson will officiate. Ar-rangements are by Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
He was born Dec. 11, 1929, in Winters, Texas, to Andrew and Bertha Fleming Cummings and died Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007, at Integris Baptist Hospital, Oklahoma City.
He grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he graduated from Bob Jones University.
He received his master’s degree in communications at Wheaton College and an honorary doctorate from Toccoa Falls College in Georgia.
He married Mary Lee Warren, Jan. 7, 1955, in Flint, Mich. He entered the mission field in 1955 in Ecuador where he worked at the HCJB radio station for more than 50 years. They returned to Enid in 2000 and lived at Golden Oaks.
Surviving are his wife, Mary Lee of the home; two sons, Richard Cummings of El Mirage, Ariz., and Donald Cummings of Carrollton, Texas; one daughter, Cathy Gehman of Edgewood, Ariz.; one brother, Billy Cummings of Laredo, Texas; and six grandchildren.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to HCJB Global Mission for the Missionary Radio Light Project in Papua, New Guinea.
Condolences may be made online at ladusauevans@sudden linkmail.com.
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