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Cummings retired from state employment in 1993. In the fall of 1994, he relocated to his ranch between Hamilton and  Goldthwaite in 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.''<ref name=obit/>​

Cummings retired from state employment in 1993. In the fall of 1994, he relocated to his ranch between Hamilton and  Goldthwaite in 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.''<ref name=obit/>​

==Death==​

==Death==

​Cummings died of [[cancer]] at the age of eighty-two at his residence in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]] in McLennan County, Texas. 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.<ref name=chron/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us|title=Russell B. Cummings|publisher=Texas State  Cemetery|accessdate=November 7, 2019}}</ref>​

 

​Cummings died of [[cancer]] at the age of eighty-two at his residence in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]] in McLennan County, Texas. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us|title=Russell B. Cummings|publisher=Texas State  Cemetery|accessdate=November 7, 2019}}</ref>​

Cummings is honored through the Russell Cummings Nursing Scholarship at McLennan Community College in Waco.<ref name=obit/>​

Cummings is honored through the Russell Cummings Nursing Scholarship at McLennan Community College in Waco.<ref name=obit/>​