Douglas Ice Cummings Funeral

Funeral

I am Terry Sander the Youth Pastor at First Baptist Church here in Littlefield, Our Church loves this Family very much and you are in our Prayers, Our Pastor wanted me to let you know he wished he could be here this morning and that he is praying as well.

On behalf of the Family they want to thank you for being here and the family would like to give a special thank you to Terry Webb.

Douglas Ice Cummings, 69, passed away Wednesday, August 2, 2023 in Lubbock. He was born September 30, 1953 in Lubbock to Winston and Hilda (Bagwell) Cummings.

Doug was raised in Lamb County and graduated from Amherst High School in 1972. He attended Texas Tech University, was a member of Alpha Tau(towl) Omega fraternity and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1977. Doug worked as an Agriculture loan banker for many years, in Littlefield, Anton and Shallowater.

Doug married Debbie Cook, and the couple had a son, Derek. After her passing in 2003, he later met Kathy Wells and they married in 2008. Doug coached Derek in youth baseball and was Derek’s biggest fan in everything he did. He loved watching football, was an avid golfer and in his younger years rode bulls and broncs in the rodeo arena.

Doug is survived by his wife, Kathy Cummings of Lubbock; a niece, Nikki Steen Kovar and her husband retired Sergeant major Ernie Kovar of Liberty Hill, Texas and their two children, Easton and Tenley; His sister-in-Law, Sherri Gilmore, and brother-in-Law, Brent Wells and wife Lori and three nieces, Laney, Hallie and Karley their husbands and children and other extended family members and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, his son, Derek Cummings, and a sister, Debbie Steen.

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Doug was traditional & rock steady, although he really was not up for Modern technology. He loved big and was a devoted man to his family and friends. It has been said that he would give you the shirt off of his back, but he didn’t really tolerate to much nonsense.

His daily routine recently was watching football, golf professional bull riding and Heartland.

I was also told that He and Nikki had a special Uncle niece bond, and that he always got excited when he got to see pictures of Easton and Tenley and the activities they were involved in. He also enjoyed the Wells nieces and their kids.

I also here some great story’s of how Doug, Terry and Ray took Derek, Adam, Reese and Marcus to the deer lease every weekend of deer season and how much they just enjoyed the the boys and the camaraderie.

During Doug’s banking career he made many farmer friends and had special relationships with each one of them, Just a few days ago Kathy had a farmer tell her that when no one would finance his farming operation Doug was there to help him get it done.

I was told that Doug really loved corn on the cob. In fact He went one time to get a few ears from Keith Harkey’s field, and before he knew it Keith’s guys had filled the back of His Pickup with corn. Then Doug headed immediately to Plainview to share the corn with his mother in-law June Wells and they ate on that corn for a year!

I know many of you in this room have great stories and memories that he has left for you.

and how he made your life different just having him around!

Today we come together in sadness and in grief, because you already miss him like crazy!!

However; in the middle of all the grief and sadness lies a peace and Joy!!!!

Why is that????

There is one greater than us!!!

One that took away the sting of death by his resurrection. You see in John 14:1-6 Jesus states

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling-places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.’ Thomas said to him, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Just like Thomas we might be asking How can we know the way!!!!

You might be saying today how can I handle any more grief or pain in this life.

They answers are found in the words of Jesus, when he said I am the Way, and the truth and the life.

You see even in pain, grief and sorrow we have a great Joy that runs deep!!!

We know based on the words of our Savior that those who have placed their trust in Jesus will have a glorious reunion.

Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life.

Those who believe in me, even though they die, yet they shall live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.

I am the Alpha the Omega, the beginning and the end the first and the last.

I died and behold I am alive for evermore, and hold the keys of hell and death because I live, you shall love also.

As we come here gathered today in God’s presence as family and friends to remember the life of Doug

We come together in grief, acknowledging our human loss.

May God grant us grace, that in pain we may find comfort, in sorrow hope, in death resurrection.

*Friends and family there is comfort in the memories of how Doug touched your lives and made it different

*There is comfort in remembering that death is not the end if you have a relationship with Christ.

*There is comfort in knowing that you can see those who have a relationship with Christ again.

* Our greatest comfort is found in Christ.

Jesus said, “come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest” Jesus has promised through the writer of Hebrews, “I will never leave you…nor forsake you.”

And it is through a relationship with Christ that we are able to say as the Psalmist, “though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.”

In reality we are not given a choice about whether to meet death, or even when to meet death, only how to meet death.

Jesus promises eternal life to “ those who have a believe in him and have a relationship with him.”

Today, beyond our natural sorrow, there is a supernatural joy that comes from knowing:

…the reality of Jesus

…the reality of God’s love

…the reality of forgiveness

…the reality of the new birth

…the reality of Heaven

…the reality of eternity

*This is our hope

*This is our confidence

It is because of the hope we have in Christ that gives us Hope when we find ourselves in such sorrow and pain.

1 Corinthians 2:1 tells us that no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.

He has a place prepared where there is no pain, no tears, no fear, no depression, Those same hands that died for us will wipe every tear from our eyes.

When we die we are just begging the chapter of our true lives, Our life here on Earth is Just the cover of our lives.