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Lavere Barnett Cummings, 86, of Wolf Summit, died Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at United Hospital Center.  He was born in Wolf Summit on March 4, 1923, the son of the late Clarence Henderson Cummings and Freta Barnett Cummings Duff. 

He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Arlena Ray Smith Cummings, whom he married January 10, 1945. 

Also surviving are his daughters, Linda Loy of Malvern, OH; and Donna Gault and her husband Ronald of Parkersburg; a son, Ricky Cummings of Louisville, OH.  Seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a sister, Vaudlyn Flowers and husband Woodrow, Clarksburg; a brother, Paul Cummings and his wife Mary Olive; a sister and brother-in-law, Karen and Lewis Shepherd of West Union; a brother-in-law, Clayton Seal, Marshville; and several nieces and nephews complete his family. 

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Doyle Cummings. 

Lavere lived in Wolf Summit most of his life.  He served in the Army Air Corp from January 1943 to February 1946 during World War II.  Since 1955, he was a member of the Wolf Summit Wesleyan Methodist Church where he served as Sunday School Superintendent for 30 ½ years.  He enjoyed transporting sometimes as many as 17 children to Sunday School.  Also for many years he served on the Board of Stewards and as a church trustee. 

He was employed by Hagen Diary, Imperial Ice Cream, and Fairmont Foods of Clarksburg as a refrigeration repairman where he serviced equipment for dime stores and drug stores in Harrison County and thirteen surrounding counties.  In 1964 he created Cummings Refrigeration, from which he retired in 1981 due to poor health. 

Memorial contributions in memory of Lavere may be made to Wolf Summit Wesleyan Methodist Church, Rt. 4, Box 300, Salem, WV 26426

Friends will be received at Burnside Funeral Home, 607 S. Virginia Avenue, Bridgeport, on Friday from 2-4 & 6-8 p.m., where services will be held on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 12 Noon  with Reverend Daniel Cope officiating.  Interment will follow in Floral Hills Memorial Gardens, where the Committal Service and Military Funeral Honors  will be held in the Mausoleum Chapel.

Burnside Funeral Home, Bridgeport

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