Date of birth: 12 Aug 1924
Date of death: 10 Dec 1991

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Burial Information

Section 09 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0160-14
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY
Rank: PRIVATE
Years Served: 1943 - 1945
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II - Okinawa

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Notes

Obituary

James Emmitt Cunningham, Sr.

James Emmitt "Bubber" Cunningham. Sr., 67, a retired farmer of Thornton, died of cancer Tuesday, December 10 at Methodist Hospital of Middle Mississippi in Lexington.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Thursday, December 12 at Southern Funeral Home in Lexington with the Rev. David Smith officiating, assisted by the Rev. Richard Wimon. Burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington.

Mr. Cunningham, a Holmes County native, was a member of Thornton Methodist Church. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was past president and the longest active director of the Good Hope Gin. He was also a supporter of the 4-H Club and the Staplcotn Association.

Survivors include: his wife. Erma Louise Buck Cunningham of Thornton; three sons, James E. Cunningham, Jr. and Wilson Cunningham, both of Tchula, and George Cunningham of Lexington; a daughter, Carolyn Mirick of Lexington; a sister Miriam Eatherly of Greenville; and six grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were Billy Link, Bryan Jones, Mike Braswell, Sonny Brock, Bryant Parrish, Byron Sharpe, Jr., Paul Sharpe, and David Murtagh.

Honorary pallbearers were Jimmy Holloway, Dr. John Downer, Bernard Jones, Gilliam Gwin, Bill Murtagh, Byron Sharpe, Sr., Donald Parrish, Pepper Beard, Jerry Hoover, James Nelms, Guy Duke, Sonny Peaster, Hugh Meade, Gene Austin, Tommy Peaster, John Edgar Hays, Milton Thornton, Robert Wingate, and Larry Clanton.

Memorials may be made to the Thornton Methodist Church.

The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
December 19, 1991

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Family Members

Parents
James Elias Cunningham
1900–1947

Minnie Mangum Cunningham
1901–1988

Siblings
Infant Cunningham
1922–1922

Spouse
Erma Buck Cunningham
1927–2013

Children
James Emmitt Cunningham, Jr.
1947–1992

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