Robert "Bob" Henry Cummings

Bob Cummings from Columbus, Mississippi passed away Thursday, October 5 th, 2023 at 73 years of age. He was born March 26, 1950 to Henry and Dollie Wilson Cummings. He graduated from Lee High School in 1968.
He married Debbie Smith in 1972 and welcomed his only child Erica Michelle in 1984. After the end of that marriage, he met Glenda Blackburn in 1987 and married her in 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia. They lived in Atlanta and Florida for 25 years before moving to Columbus to be closer to Glenda’s parents.
He was preceded in death by both parents, his only sibling Dollie Ann Smith and his mother-in-law Joann Blackburn.
He is survived by his wife Glenda, daughter Erica and her husband Jay Culpepper, his grandchildren Hailey, Jay and Owen Culpepper, his niece Karen Keen, nephew Scott Medley, great niece Grace Keen, great nephew Jacob Keen, father-in-law Jerry Blackburn, brother-in-law Dale Blackburn and his wife Charity, Glenda’s niece Karen Blackburn and Karen’s two children Lucas and Ansleigh Lormond, Glenda’s nephew Jerry Dale Blackburn, his wife Kathryn and their baby daughter Vera. His 1 st cousins Becky Childers, Teena Dodd and her husband Mike Dodd,
Frank “Hank” Edmondson and his wife Liz, Susan Edmondson, Lee Lavender and Nancy Schultz. In addition, 2nd cousins Adam, Nick, Lance and Trevor Dodd, Michael, Alan and Kevin Schultz, Palani, Jeff and Brad Edmondson, Brent and Brett Childers. As well as old friends from “way back then” whom he reconnected with – Rick and Edna McGill, Bill and Debbie Holloway and Bill and Sandy Dunnam.
There will be a visitation only at Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home 716 2nd Ave. N., Columbus, Mississippi on October 8th, 2023 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.
Memorials may be made to the Columbus Lowndes Humane Society located at 50 Airline Road, Columbus, Mississippi 39702.