Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Nicole S. Cummins

Feb. 23, 1944 - Oct. 31, 1999

 

South Bend Tribune 11/2/1999

MISHAWAKA - Nicole Sue "Nikki" Cummins, 55, formerly of Plymouth, a resident of the Mishawaka area since 1986, died following a short illness on Sunday, October 31, 1999, at 10 a.m. in Memorial Hospital, South Bend. Nikki lived at 58754 Ireland Trail, Mishawaka, Ind.

 

She was born February 23, 1944, in South Bend, Indiana, the daughter of George L. and Maryann Zimmerman Rankin. She graduated from Plymouth High School in 1962.

 

On January 4, 1964, in Plymouth, she married Ray Cummins. She was a waitress at Denny's Restaurant for 20 years. Nikki was a loving person. She spent as much time as she could with her family, especially her grandchildren to whom she was devoted. She enjoyed outdoors activities, particularly flower gardening and yard work.

 

Ray Cummins, Nicole's husband, survives, along with their two children: a daughter, Patricia and Dan Collins, South Bend, and a son, Michael and Tina Cummins, Buchanan, Michigan; and ten beloved grandchildren. Nicole's parents, George and Maryann Rankin, Plymouth, a sister, Karen K. Roush, South Bend, and her mother-in-law, Silvia Cummins, Plymouth, survive as well.

 

Friends may visit with the family from 2 to 8 p.m. today in the Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, 1100 N. Michigan St., Plymouth. Pastor Stephen Patrick of the House of the Lord will conduct the funeral service in the funeral home on Wednesday, November 3, 1999, at 11 a.m. Memorial gifts in Nicole's memory may be made to the Brain Tumor Foundation.