Donald Verne Cummings

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Donald Verne Cummings, age 82, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., went to his heavenly reward Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family. Don was born June 19, 1937, in Fort Scott at the old Mercy Hospital to Paul Verne and Delta Armour Cummings. He attended the one-room schoolhouse at Godfrey and graduated from Fort Scott High School with the class of 1955. His first job was with JC Penney Company where he worked in the men’s department and learned that gentlemen always carried a white handkerchief, which he did every day. He served as a sergeant with the National Guard Military Police unit in Pittsburg, Kan. On June 24, 1961, he married Peggy Pat Rose in the Sacred Heart Church in Mound City, Kan. His career with the Western Insurance Company began in the supply department in 1957. In 1962 he accepted a transfer to the Lebanon, Ind., branch office as a commercial lines underwriter. In 1976, he assumed management of the Kansas City, Mo., branch office and in 1979 became manager of the office in Bettendorf, Iowa, the Western Insurance Company’s largest branch office. He returned to Fort Scott in 1987 and worked as commercial lines manager for American States Insurance, retiring in 1994 after 37 years in the insurance industry. He always appreciated the opportunities the Western Insurance Company provided him.

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