Jeanne E. Cunningham

She was born on July 2, 1929 in Akron, Ohio to Glen Neuman and Leona Shaffer. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Cunningham, whom she married on November 15, 1953 and who died on February 6, 2003. Leaving to grieve, her son, Scott A. Cunningham and wife Elizabeth Cunningham of Austin, Texas; daughter, Tami Sachs and husband Sewall Sachs of Wilbraham, Massachusetts; four grandchildren, Marissa and Travis Cunningham of Austin, Texas and Zander and Samantha Sachs of Wilbraham, Mass.; her sister, Patricia Trefry and husband, Fred Trefry of Temple Hills, Maryland; and also her many friends and relatives in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Florida and Texas.

Memorial services will be held in spring at Holy Family Church in Temple Hills, Maryland. Her cremains will be scattered over the Chesapeake Bay after her memorial services.

Let me

steep myself

in the brimy breach

and be born

anew this day

this beach

charges nothing

to walk among

the sea rack and

shards of memory

stitch my shroud

tie granite to my ankles

bury me

deep in the heart

of the Chesapeake

I, who have found

the end of the rainbow

can never be unhappy.