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February 25, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Memorial Service will be held 1 PM on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Schuyler “Sky” Forbes Cumings, age 89, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Saturday, February 25, 2017 with the comfort of his wife by his side.
The son of Captain Schuyler Forbes and Mary (Brown) Cumings, he was born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Bronxville, New York having graduated from Roosevelt High School with the Class of 1945.
Schuyler, with a strong sense of patriotism inspired by WWII, enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen. He was following in his father’s Navy footsteps, but his activation was deferred until he graduated from high school. He served aboard the USS Chara AKA-58, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship. Schuyler boarded the ship in San Francisco just before the war ended. He was honorably discharged as a Seaman First Class on August 17th of 1946 and received the World War II Victory Medal for his service.
After his service Schuyler worked for the Allied Chemical Company in New York City while attending night school at NYU University. He also worked for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco) in New York City as an auditor where he worked for over twenty five years before retiring in 1985. After his retirement he worked for the Wayne Board of Education for several years before fully retiring. For many years he volunteered as the treasurer of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne leaving that position in 2011.
Sky will be remembered as a meticulous perfectionist that would spend hours trying to find the penny that was keeping him from balancing the books. He was tenacious and steadfast in his beliefs, yet had a lively sense of humor. He was immaculately clean, generous, and being raised and influenced by the depression years, was always conscious not to waste anything. While grocery shopping and attempting to find the best value for every dollar he spent, he would even analyze the number of slices of bread in a loaf to determine the best value. He never liked the idea of using credit and would save enough to make purchases outright. He was very independent, didn’t want to burden his parents in any way, and insisted on putting himself through college. Sky had a healthy appetite and loved to eat yet not gain a pound. His metabolism was fortified by his love of jogging before it was popular. He also enjoyed mapping all the streets in a town and walking each and every one. Once he finished one town he would move on and conquer another. Sky had a thirst for knowledge. He would read books, the daily newspaper front to back, and Reader’s Digest cover to cover. With all his reading he had a vast array of knowledge and was gifted with the ability to recall that information on cue. Even in his retirement he went to computer programming school, graduated first in his class, and joined a computer programming club. He also volunteered and served as a Master Board Member for the Passaic Count Election Board certifying results garnered from area voting machines.
As a young man Sky and Virginia Herbert went to the same high school. They knew each other on a causal basis and after high school Sky saw Virginia walking home from the bus stop as he was driving home from the train station. He was struck by Virginia’s outfit and especially the yellow shoes she was wearing. They dated and went square dancing many times and were soon dating steady. Sky proposed to Virginia, and they were married on her birthday, August 15, 1953 at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Hartsdale, New York. They drove in Sky’s 1953 blue and white Chevrolet hardtop convertible to honeymoon in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Sky was extremely light skinned and Virginia was very tan. After just two visits to the beach Sky was sunburned even after wearing a long sleeve shirt, long pants, and socks. They newlyweds settled into an attic apartment in a Yonkers, New York Cape Cod style home. Sky’s work would have them move to Huntington, West Virginia, back to New York City, Mahwah, New Jersey, Richmond, Virginia and in 1968 they settled into a home in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, New Jersey. They have enjoyed sixty-four years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Schuyler was the devoted father of Captain Bruce Cumings and his wife Amy of Fort Lauderdale, FL; cherished grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth Cumings and Ryan Schuyler Cumings; he was the brother of the late Jack Cumings and the late Ruth Dunn.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Memorial Service will be held 1 PM on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
February 25, 2017
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 2-5 PM on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A Memorial Service will be held 1 PM on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne.
Schuyler “Sky” Forbes Cumings, age 89, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Saturday, February 25, 2017 with the comfort of his wife by his side.
The son of Captain Schuyler Forbes and Mary (Brown) Cumings, he was born in the Bronx, New York and raised in Bronxville, New York having graduated from Roosevelt High School with the Class of 1945.
Schuyler, with a strong sense of patriotism inspired by WWII, enlisted in the United States Navy at the age of seventeen. He was following in his father’s Navy footsteps, but his activation was deferred until he graduated from high school. He served aboard the USS Chara AKA-58, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship. Schuyler boarded the ship in San Francisco just before the war ended. He was honorably discharged as a Seaman First Class on August 17th of 1946 and received the World War II Victory Medal for his service.
After his service Schuyler worked for the Allied Chemical Company in New York City while attending night school at NYU University. He also worked for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company (Westvaco) in New York City as an auditor where he worked for over twenty five years before retiring in 1985. After his retirement he worked for the Wayne Board of Education for several years before fully retiring. For many years he volunteered as the treasurer of the Packanack Community Church in Wayne leaving that position in 2011.
Sky will be remembered as a meticulous perfectionist that would spend hours trying to find the penny that was keeping him from balancing the books. He was tenacious and steadfast in his beliefs, yet had a lively sense of humor. He was immaculately clean, generous, and being raised and influenced by the depression years, was always conscious not to waste anything. While grocery shopping and attempting to find the best value for every dollar he spent, he would even analyze the number of slices of bread in a loaf to determine the best value. He never liked the idea of using credit and would save enough to make purchases outright. He was very independent, didn’t want to burden his parents in any way, and insisted on putting himself through college. Sky had a healthy appetite and loved to eat yet not gain a pound. His metabolism was fortified by his love of jogging before it was popular. He also enjoyed mapping all the streets in a town and walking each and every one. Once he finished one town he would move on and conquer another. Sky had a thirst for knowledge. He would read books, the daily newspaper front to back, and Reader’s Digest cover to cover. With all his reading he had a vast array of knowledge and was gifted with the ability to recall that information on cue. Even in his retirement he went to computer programming school, graduated first in his class, and joined a computer programming club. He also volunteered and served as a Master Board Member for the Passaic Count Election Board certifying results garnered from area voting machines.
As a young man Sky and Virginia Herbert went to the same high school. They knew each other on a causal basis and after high school Sky saw Virginia walking home from the bus stop as he was driving home from the train station. He was struck by Virginia’s outfit and especially the yellow shoes she was wearing. They dated and went square dancing many times and were soon dating steady. Sky proposed to Virginia, and they were married on her birthday, August 15, 1953 at St Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Hartsdale, New York. They drove in Sky’s 1953 blue and white Chevrolet hardtop convertible to honeymoon in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Sky was extremely light skinned and Virginia was very tan. After just two visits to the beach Sky was sunburned even after wearing a long sleeve shirt, long pants, and socks. They newlyweds settled into an attic apartment in a Yonkers, New York Cape Cod style home. Sky’s work would have them move to Huntington, West Virginia, back to New York City, Mahwah, New Jersey, Richmond, Virginia and in 1968 they settled into a home in the Packanack Lake Section of Wayne, New Jersey. They have enjoyed sixty-four years of a loving and devoted marriage.
Schuyler was the devoted father of Captain Bruce Cumings and his wife Amy of Fort Lauderdale, FL; cherished grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth Cumings and Ryan Schuyler Cumings; he was the brother of the late Jack Cumings and the late Ruth Dunn.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Packanack Community Church, 120 Lake Drive East, Wayne, NJ 07470 would be appreciated.
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