HAMILTON — Larry was called to our Lord on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, at 98 years of age.
Larry was born Sept. 1, 1919, to Ernest Lawrence and Nimmie Hazel Kenmore Cummins in Hollis, Oklahoma. All three brothers served in the Army Air Corps in WWII. Larry was a transport pilot of C-47's (DC-3). He and his squadron were assigned to fly supply and medevac missions in the North Africa Campaign. His flight dropped the first Paratroopers into Sicily, and the wing was awarded a "Spearhead" for the unit battle streamer for Sicily as one of the first units into enemy territory. Larry, after dozens of supply and medevac missions, was in the vanguard to drop paratroopers into Normandy and later "Market Garden." They also supplied fuel to Patton's Army during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war Larry went to school with the Elgin Watch company. As his final project he built a table clock that was recently evaluated on Antique Roadshow as "priceless." He was recalled to the U.S. Air Force during the Berlin Airlift and served another couple of years.
Over the years after that he was in numerous businesses but most of this work was installing and maintaining safes and vaults for banks. His work took him over most of the west and even to Europe. Even after his retirement from Yale Lock Co. he continued to install vaults and safes in western Montana. Most of the bank vaults and safes in the Bitterroot have his fingerprints somewhere inside them. Always a businessman he invested in real estate from the Gulf Coast to Oregon and Montana (we won't talk about the 1,000 acres in the Amazon). Larry continued business ventures well into his 90s, still installing vault doors and teaming up with a business partner Brent Byrum in a specialty safe and lock company.

Larry met and married June Smith about 20 years ago and the two have been inseparable ever since. Larry passed in his sleep Friday, Oct. 20, and over the last days has been surrounded by his family.
Larry is survived by his wife June and her children Bonnie, Darlene and husband Neal, and Steve and wife Linda. His nieces Glenda Sutton, Mettie Cummins, Patricia Bostick, and nephews Terry Cummins and Larry Bostick, an uncle Darrell Kenmore and his wife Nell and his sister-in-law Willie Cummins.