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Cummings formerly operated a service station at Richmond and Montrose streets in Houston. In 1956, he launched a moving and storage business. He was vice president of the Houston chapter of the Texas Service Station Association and the Houston Movers Association and the president of the Richwood Civic Club. The Cummingses lived in Richwood from 1955 to 1973, when he became executive director of the Texas Mass Transportation Commission, which merged into the Texas Department of Transportation. He hence relocated to Austin.
Cummings retired from state employment in 1993. In the fall of 1994, he relocated to his ranch between Hamilton (Hamilton County) and Goldthwaite (Mills County) in central Texas, where he raised Brangus cattle. "Our ranch was the third one in Texas to be certified as a "Texas Quality Beef Producer" by the Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers Association," Cummings wrote in his self-penned obituary in the Austin American-Statesman.
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