Funeral services for Sadie Cummings, 86, of San Francisco, CA, formerly of Ferriday, LA will be held Saturday, December 19, 2015 at 1:00pm from St. Mark Baptist Church in Clayton, LA. Burial will follow at the Zion Hill Church Cemetery in Ferriday.

Mrs. Cummings, daughter of Tom and Sadie Williams Butcher was born in Ferriday and died at St. Mary Hospital in San Francisco, CA. She was reared by her uunt and uncle, Viola and Howard Neal having lost her mother at the tender age of nine months old.

She was a graduate of Sevier High School in Ferriday and Grambling College with a degree in education. Her teaching careet began at the Carolina Plantation School on Lake St. John. When she left the plantation school, she taught at Sevier Elementary School until she married Clarence Cummings and then moved to San Francisco. She and her husband later moved back to Louisiana and she then taught first grade at Sevier Lower Elementary School during the integration years. In 1977 she retired.

Mrs. Cummings is survived by her two children, Clarence Cummings, Jr. of San Francisco and Loraine Amill of Omaha, NE; three grandchildren, MyEsha Soukup, Jazhan and Coresian Amill; five great-grandchildren, Ania D. Soukup, Daniel J. Soukup, Jazhan J. Amill, Marlee D. Amill, Ricki J. M. Amill; one sister, Augustine Levy of Ferriday; two brothers, Frank Butcher and Rev. Toby Carlos of Bloomington, IL.

Also three god chidlren, Irene Polk White, Clara Watson Carter and Joyce Banks and a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Preceding in death are six brothers, James, Leon, Joe, Tom, Clarence and Clyde; six sisters, Gertrude, Josephine,, Ethel, Doris, Bertha and Katie.