Wesley "Wes" Cummings

Graveside services for Wesley "Wes" Cummings will be held on Friday, June 13, 2025 at 11 a.m. at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Mancos, Colorado.

Wes Cummings was born December 30, 1939 in La Junta, Colorado to Merrell Price and Katie Bernice (Parrish) Cummings. He passed away August 2, 2024, while in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 84.

Wes attended a one room school in rural southeast Colorado through his elementary years before the family moved to La Junta. After graduation from La Junta High School, he attended Otero Junior College for several terms as a pre-engineering major before deciding to explore other occupations. In 1967, he attended the Electronic Technical Institute in Denver, Colorado earning an Advanced Electronic Technician diploma and a Federal Communications Commission General Radiotelephone Operator License. Following graduation, he worked for Martin Marietta in Denver as a test technician for the Titan Rocket systems.

In 1969, he moved to San Francisco Bay area to work for United Airlines as an avionics technician, troubleshooting and repairing flight control computers for the DC-8, 727, and 747 aircraft. While in California, he met and married Margaret "Meg" Johnston of Durango in 1971. Wanting to raise their family back home in Colorado, they moved to Mancos in 1981 where Wes and his father built the family home. Meg and Wes raised their three children, and he worked for Colorado Ute Electric, later Tri State G&T, as an electronic specialist until retiring in 2003. From an early age he had a passion for planes and flying, earning his private pilot's license. For 25 years he was fortunate to fly his Cessna 182.

Surviving Wes is his spouse of 53 years, Meg; children, Randy (Carrie) Atkinson of Alamosa and Mike (Diane) Atkinson of Rolla, Missouri; Erin (Ryan) Briscoe of Homer, Alaska; Greg (Andrea) Cummings of Grand Junction; and Alan (Emily) Cummings of Fort Collins; his sister, Elaine Brickel of Lawrence, Kansas; as well as ten grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. 

Wes was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Billy.

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