Alice Ruth Nichols Cunningham's Obituary
DeRidder, Louisiana
Funeral services for Alice Ruth Nichols Cunningham, 88, of DeRidder, LA, will be held at 2 P.M., Wednesday, October 21, 2009, in Labby Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in DeRidder with Rev. George Lee Glass and Rev. James L. Glass officiating. Burial will follow in Hopewell Cemetery under the direction of Labby Memorial Funeral Home in DeRidder. Mrs. Cunningham passed away Monday, October 19, 2009, in Beauregard Memorial Hospital in DeRidder. Visitation will be from 5 P.M. until 9 P.M., Tuesday, October 20, 2009, and from 9 A.M. until time of service Wednesday, October 21, 2009, in Labby Memorial Funeral Home in DeRidder.
Mrs. Cunningham was a native and lifelong resident of DeRidder. She was a member of Grace Church in DeRidder and a graduate of DeRidder High School. While in school she was a four year letterman in basketball. She loved to fish, garden and watch her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren participate in sports.
She is survived by sons Rickey Cunningham and Ronnie Cunningham, both of DeRidder; daughters, Cathy Cunningham of DeRidder and Kitty Wingate of Pitkin, LA; one brother, Wallace Nichols of DeRidder; four sisters, Floye Herrington, Joy Hudson and Mae Presley, of DeRidder, and Helen Green of Baton Rouge, LA; nine grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and thirteen gr eat grandchildren. She was preceded in death by husband, Dickie Cunningham, step-son Richard Rogers, parents Thomas L. and James Ellen Nichols, brother Lee Nichols and sister, Mary Lois Dameron.
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