Chris Cummings
Chief Chris Cummings, 53, of Union City passed away Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with Bro. Tony Keeton officiating. Visitation will be today (Wednesday) from 4-7 p.m. and again on Thursday prior to the service beginning at 9 a.m. at the funeral home.
Chris was born in Moorhead, Minn., on Oct. 6, 1970, to Jeffrey and Sharon Cummings. He was the police chief of the Samburg Police Department.
He joined the Army right out of high school. He served as a military police officer in Berlin, Germany, during the fall of the Berlin Wall, which gave him a unique classification for his age as a World War II veteran. After his Army service ended in 1993, he enlisted in the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 913th Engineer Co. in 1994, serving 25 years. While in the Guard, he was deployed twice to Iraq.
Chris is survived by his son, Matthew Cummings, and his fiancée, Kellie Henson, of Troy; parents, Jeffrey Cummings and his wife, Marsha, of Wahpeton, N.D., and Sharon Cummings of Union City; his girlfriend, April Phillips of Paris; his stepson, Easton Phillips of Paris; two sisters, Lisa VanLeeuwen and her husband, Mark, of Utah and Melissa Cummings of Virginia; and five nieces and nephews.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.
Published in The Messenger on 12.13.23