Death and Burial
Cummings died of cancer at the age of eighty-two at his residence in Waco, the seat of McLennan County. He was survived by his wife, the former Dorothy Hensley (born August 23, 1929), and two children, David Malcolm Cummings and Karen Ann Cummings Garrett. Cummings is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin. Since 1851, soldiers and founders of the Republic of Texas and the state itself as well as elected officials, jurists, and others who have made "a significant contribution to Texas history, government, and culture" have been interred in the state cemetery.
Cummings is honored through the Russell Cummings Nursing Scholarship at McLennan Community College in Waco.
Not along after Cummings' death, his former House colleague, Joseph Hugh Allen of Baytown, also expired. Allen too is interred in Texas State Cemetery.
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