2025 Financial Report: A Milestone Year for Generosity
Thank you for your commitment to sharing your gifts for the good of our United Methodist Church and its ministries. In 2025, you gave $5,056,797—80 percent of our budgeted…
Mrs. June B. Cummings, spouse of deceased clergy Rev. Ernest W. Cummings of the Northern Illinois Conference, passed away Sunday, November 14, 2021. During Rev. Ernest Cummings ministry, he served Esmond, Capron/Blaine, Rockford: Winnebago/Burritt, Elgin: Wesley, Walnut, Dundee, and Cary.
Mrs. Cummings was 103 years old.
A memorial gathering will be held at a later date.
Messages of condolences can be sent to her family:
Mr. Paul Cummings
S12445 W Prairie View Rd.
Spring Green View, WI 53588
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in June’s name to the Wesley Willow Good Samaritan Fund, 4141 N. Rockton Ave., Rockford, IL 61103
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