Delila Merle Cummings

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The Duncan Banner Oct. 21, 2002

OKLAHOMA CITY - Delila M. Cummings Stamper, 86, passed from this life on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002, in Alamogordo, N.M. Service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Hahn, Cook, Street and Draper Funeral Home in Oklahoma City with Kenneth Beard officiating. Internment will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Stamper was born Dec. 2, 1915, near Duncan in the Liberty district, to Charles and Ophia Wampler Cummings. She attended Liberty and Empire schools, graduating from Empire in 1934. She married O.B. "Bush" Stamper, a teacher at Empire school, on July 13, 1941. The Stampers lived in several states including Texas, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia and Oklahoma while Mr. Stamper taught in high schools, colleges and universities. They moved back to Oklahoma City in 1961. In 1994, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Stamper moved to New Mexico to be near her two children and their families. She was a lifelong, active member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Chris Chapis of Las Vegas, Nev.; a son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Kathy Stamper of Tularosa, N.M.; two grandsons, David Ian Stamper and his wife, Arlene, and Aaron Jeffrey Stamper all of Albuquerque, N.M.; a sister, Ruby Treece Jennings of Duncan; a brother Charles Lawrence Cummings of Ventura, Calif.; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 49 years; five brothers, Earl Andrew Cummings, O.L. " Buster" Cummings, Glen Eugene Cummings, Horace H. Cummings and Russell Lee Cummings; and three sisters, Rose Corene Cummings, Mary Ellen Cummings Wilkinson and Iona May Cummings Pollock.

(Courtesy of Lyn Gentry Cordell)

Delila married Orville Bush "O. B." "Bush" Stamper on 13 Jul 1941 in Frederick, Tillman County, Oklahoma. Orville (son of William Clint "Clint" Stamper and Marie Audrey Bush) was born on 29 Jul 1913 in Wheeler County, Texas; died on 24 Nov 1990 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma; was buried in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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