Obituary:  Minnie Cunningham   

Minnie Coppinger Cunningham

Minnie Cunningham, 85, of Cross Plains, passed away Saturday, July 26, 2003, at her home.

Services were held at 2:00p.m. Monday, July 28, 2003, at the Higginbotham Funeral Chapel with Ronnie White officiating.  Burial was in the Cross Plains Cemetery directed by Higginbotham Funeral Home of Cross Plains.

Minnie was born September 10, 1917 in Cottonwood, Texas to Lewis Coppinger and Maud Shufford Coppinger.  She married Mike Cunningham in Jal, New Mexico on August 15, 1940. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Cross Plains.

Survivors include several nieces, nephews and cousins, including Charlou Cowan and Lurene McNutt, both of Cross Plains, Sharene Deskmukh of Stephenville and Byrene Ferguson of Odessa; as well as Kerry Coppinger, Becky Shugart and Susan Carpenter.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Mike Cunningham; twin sister Winnie Lane, and sister, Louise Richardson; three brothers, Charles Coppinger, John Coppinger and Tommy James Coppinger.

Pallbearers were Alvin Hutchings, Dick Grider, Charlie Grider, Scott Childress, Thomas Buckner and Rex Beggs.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, P. O. Box 134, Cross Plains, Texas 76443 or the Cross Plains E. M. S., P.O. Box 699, Cross Plains, Texas 76443.

Cross Plains Review, Cross Plains, Texas, July 31, 2003

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