Mr. Darryl Page Cunningham, 81 of Symsonia, KY passed away Thursday, December 24, 2020, at his home.
Born Sunday, March 26, 1939 in Beechy Fork Creek, KY, he was the son of the late Earl Wayne Cunningham and Lois Velma (Page) Cunningham.
After enlisting in the United States Navy in 1957, he was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base and was a Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2), and served with the Sea-Bees and Amphibious Navy, and served on the USS El Dorado. In 1973 Darryl joined the U.S. Army Reserve and Kentucky National Guard reaching the rank of Sergeant 1st Class and earning the coveted Expert Field Medical Badge, and retired after serving over 30 years with them.
Darryl was also a 32nd Degree, 40-year member of Masonic Lodge #917, as well as a Kentucky Colonel and member of the Rizpah Shriners Temple of Madisonville, KY. He was also a member of the Teamsters union during the 1960's.
Darryl was retired Post Master, last serving the Symsonia Community until his retirement and was a member and served as president for 2 years of the National League of Postmasters of the United States.
Darryl was a member of Clarks River Baptist Church where he had previously served as Treasurer and Church Trustee.
He will be dearly missed by his family and friends.
Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Joyce Loretta (Pitt) Cunningham of Symsonia, KY; children, Darryl Wayne Cunningham, wife Lynn of New Port Richey, FL; Cheryl Rene' Cunningham Rollston of Symsonia, KY, John Roy Cunningham, wife Salena of Mayfield, KY, Rebecca Lynn Cunningham Reid, husband Mark of Symsonia, KY, brothers: #1 Earl "Gene" Eugene Cunningham, (Deceased), #3 Ronald Keith Cunningham of Hazel Park, MI, #4, Jerald "Jerry" Lane Cunningham of Westminster, CO, #5 Larry Louis Cunningham, (Deceased), #6 Jeffery Clark Cunningham of Rochester Hills, MI; grandchildren: Darryl Gage Cunningham of New Port Richey, FL, Alyssa Rene' Rollston of Cincinnati, OH, Brea Nichole Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Camden Paul Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Collier Lindsey Reid of Symsonia, KY, and Cadyn Lyles Thomas Reid of Symsonia, KY as well as many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces, and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Collier Funeral Home, Benton, KY. Bro. Jeff Collins will officiate.
Interment with full military honors are to follow the service in the Clarks River Cemetery, Symsonia, KY.
Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Friday, January 1, 2021 at the Collier Funeral Home, 211 West 5th St., Benton, KY 42025.
The family asks that memorial contributions be made to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at www.mdanderson.org; Gideon's International, Carlisle-West Graves Camp, P.O. Box 608, Cunningham, KY 42035 or to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; JDRF, 200 Vesey Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10281 or at www.JDRF.org.
Born Sunday, March 26, 1939 in Beechy Fork Creek, KY, he was the son of the late Earl Wayne Cunningham and Lois Velma (Page) Cunningham.
After enlisting in the United States Navy in 1957, he was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base and was a Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2), and served with the Sea-Bees and Amphibious Navy, and served on the USS El Dorado. In 1973 Darryl joined the U.S. Army Reserve and Kentucky National Guard reaching the rank of Sergeant 1st Class and earning the coveted Expert Field Medical Badge, and retired after serving over 30 years with them.
Darryl was also a 32nd Degree, 40-year member of Masonic Lodge #917, as well as a Kentucky Colonel and member of the Rizpah Shriners Temple of Madisonville, KY. He was also a member of the Teamsters union during the 1960's.
Darryl was retired Post Master, last serving the Symsonia Community until his retirement and was a member and served as president for 2 years of the National League of Postmasters of the United States.
Darryl was a member of Clarks River Baptist Church where he had previously served as Treasurer and Church Trustee.
He will be dearly missed by his family and friends.
Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Joyce Loretta (Pitt) Cunningham of Symsonia, KY; children, Darryl Wayne Cunningham, wife Lynn of New Port Richey, FL; Cheryl Rene' Cunningham Rollston of Symsonia, KY, John Roy Cunningham, wife Salena of Mayfield, KY, Rebecca Lynn Cunningham Reid, husband Mark of Symsonia, KY, brothers: #1 Earl "Gene" Eugene Cunningham, (Deceased), #3 Ronald Keith Cunningham of Hazel Park, MI, #4, Jerald "Jerry" Lane Cunningham of Westminster, CO, #5 Larry Louis Cunningham, (Deceased), #6 Jeffery Clark Cunningham of Rochester Hills, MI; grandchildren: Darryl Gage Cunningham of New Port Richey, FL, Alyssa Rene' Rollston of Cincinnati, OH, Brea Nichole Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Camden Paul Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Collier Lindsey Reid of Symsonia, KY, and Cadyn Lyles Thomas Reid of Symsonia, KY as well as many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces, and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Collier Funeral Home, Benton, KY. Bro. Jeff Collins will officiate.
Interment with full military honors are to follow the service in the Clarks River Cemetery, Symsonia, KY.
Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Friday, January 1, 2021 at the Collier Funeral Home, 211 West 5th St., Benton, KY 42025.
The family asks that memorial contributions be made to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at www.mdanderson.org; Gideon's International, Carlisle-West Graves Camp, P.O. Box 608, Cunningham, KY 42035 or to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; JDRF, 200 Vesey Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10281 or at www.JDRF.org.
Mr. Darryl Page Cunningham, 81 of Symsonia, KY passed away Thursday, December 24, 2020, at his home.
Born Sunday, March 26, 1939 in Beechy Fork Creek, KY, he was the son of the late Earl Wayne Cunningham and Lois Velma (Page) Cunningham.
After enlisting in the United States Navy in 1957, he was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base and was a Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2), and served with the Sea-Bees and Amphibious Navy, and served on the USS El Dorado. In 1973 Darryl joined the U.S. Army Reserve and Kentucky National Guard reaching the rank of Sergeant 1st Class and earning the coveted Expert Field Medical Badge, and retired after serving over 30 years with them.
Darryl was also a 32nd Degree, 40-year member of Masonic Lodge #917, as well as a Kentucky Colonel and member of the Rizpah Shriners Temple of Madisonville, KY. He was also a member of the Teamsters union during the 1960's.
Darryl was retired Post Master, last serving the Symsonia Community until his retirement and was a member and served as president for 2 years of the National League of Postmasters of the United States.
Darryl was a member of Clarks River Baptist Church where he had previously served as Treasurer and Church Trustee.
He will be dearly missed by his family and friends.
Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Joyce Loretta (Pitt) Cunningham of Symsonia, KY; children, Darryl Wayne Cunningham, wife Lynn of New Port Richey, FL; Cheryl Rene' Cunningham Rollston of Symsonia, KY, John Roy Cunningham, wife Salena of Mayfield, KY, Rebecca Lynn Cunningham Reid, husband Mark of Symsonia, KY, brothers: #1 Earl "Gene" Eugene Cunningham, (Deceased), #3 Ronald Keith Cunningham of Hazel Park, MI, #4, Jerald "Jerry" Lane Cunningham of Westminster, CO, #5 Larry Louis Cunningham, (Deceased), #6 Jeffery Clark Cunningham of Rochester Hills, MI; grandchildren: Darryl Gage Cunningham of New Port Richey, FL, Alyssa Rene' Rollston of Cincinnati, OH, Brea Nichole Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Camden Paul Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Collier Lindsey Reid of Symsonia, KY, and Cadyn Lyles Thomas Reid of Symsonia, KY as well as many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces, and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Collier Funeral Home, Benton, KY. Bro. Jeff Collins will officiate.
Interment with full military honors are to follow the service in the Clarks River Cemetery, Symsonia, KY.
Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Friday, January 1, 2021 at the Collier Funeral Home, 211 West 5th St., Benton, KY 42025.
The family asks that memorial contributions be made to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at www.mdanderson.org; Gideon's International, Carlisle-West Graves Camp, P.O. Box 608, Cunningham, KY 42035 or to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; JDRF, 200 Vesey Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10281 or at www.JDRF.org.
Born Sunday, March 26, 1939 in Beechy Fork Creek, KY, he was the son of the late Earl Wayne Cunningham and Lois Velma (Page) Cunningham.
After enlisting in the United States Navy in 1957, he was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base and was a Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class (HM2), and served with the Sea-Bees and Amphibious Navy, and served on the USS El Dorado. In 1973 Darryl joined the U.S. Army Reserve and Kentucky National Guard reaching the rank of Sergeant 1st Class and earning the coveted Expert Field Medical Badge, and retired after serving over 30 years with them.
Darryl was also a 32nd Degree, 40-year member of Masonic Lodge #917, as well as a Kentucky Colonel and member of the Rizpah Shriners Temple of Madisonville, KY. He was also a member of the Teamsters union during the 1960's.
Darryl was retired Post Master, last serving the Symsonia Community until his retirement and was a member and served as president for 2 years of the National League of Postmasters of the United States.
Darryl was a member of Clarks River Baptist Church where he had previously served as Treasurer and Church Trustee.
He will be dearly missed by his family and friends.
Surviving are his wife of 63 years, Joyce Loretta (Pitt) Cunningham of Symsonia, KY; children, Darryl Wayne Cunningham, wife Lynn of New Port Richey, FL; Cheryl Rene' Cunningham Rollston of Symsonia, KY, John Roy Cunningham, wife Salena of Mayfield, KY, Rebecca Lynn Cunningham Reid, husband Mark of Symsonia, KY, brothers: #1 Earl "Gene" Eugene Cunningham, (Deceased), #3 Ronald Keith Cunningham of Hazel Park, MI, #4, Jerald "Jerry" Lane Cunningham of Westminster, CO, #5 Larry Louis Cunningham, (Deceased), #6 Jeffery Clark Cunningham of Rochester Hills, MI; grandchildren: Darryl Gage Cunningham of New Port Richey, FL, Alyssa Rene' Rollston of Cincinnati, OH, Brea Nichole Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Camden Paul Rollston of Symsonia, KY, Collier Lindsey Reid of Symsonia, KY, and Cadyn Lyles Thomas Reid of Symsonia, KY as well as many nieces, nephews, and great-nieces, and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Collier Funeral Home, Benton, KY. Bro. Jeff Collins will officiate.
Interment with full military honors are to follow the service in the Clarks River Cemetery, Symsonia, KY.
Friends may visit with the family between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Friday, January 1, 2021 at the Collier Funeral Home, 211 West 5th St., Benton, KY 42025.
The family asks that memorial contributions be made to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at www.mdanderson.org; Gideon's International, Carlisle-West Graves Camp, P.O. Box 608, Cunningham, KY 42035 or to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; JDRF, 200 Vesey Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10281 or at www.JDRF.org.
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HMR US NAVY
SFC US ARMY
Married Dec 31, 1957
Parents of Darryl W, Cheryl, John, Becky
