Dorothy Dale (Cummings) Brister died Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.

She was born May 21,1921, in Sapulpa to Elizabeth (Davis) and Ernest Cummings, deceased.

Dorothy was born in Sapulpa and moved to Tahlequah when she was 11 years old, and stayed until she graduated high school in 1939. She moved to Tulsa after graduation and met and married Bud Brister on Jan. 1, 1942. Bud died on Jan. 29, 1986.

They moved to Sapulpa in 1944 and lived here until 1996 when she moved to Lucile Page Manor, retirement apartments, in Sand Springs, where she lived until her death.

She was a homemaker and waitress before retirement. She worked at Dean's Steak House for many years.

She had three brothers and one sister, all deceased: brothers Johnny, Gerald and Eugene Cummings, and sister Violet Horn.

She and Bud had two daughters and one son: daughters Lucy and Ken Hofstrom of Glenpool and Dorothy and Richard Haynes of Tulsa and son Clyde Brister, deceased, March 20, 2003, and daughter-in-law, Karen Brister of Broken Arrow; seven grandchildren, Angie and Steve Rogers, Pueblo West, Colo., Ricky and Robin Haynes, Tulsa, Kristin and Walt Gagajewski, Buckden, England, John and Leslie Haynes, Bixby, Debbie and Dirk Carlen, Greenup, Ill., Katie and Jason Howell, Carbondale, Ill., and Alien Brister, Broken Arrow; 14 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews and three sisters-in-law, Shirley Robertson, Tulsa, Betty Gifford, Rockport, Texas, and Jeraldene Cummings, Holdenville, Okla.; and one very special friend, Mildred Axley, Sand Springs.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007, at Smith Funeral Home.

Burial followed in Green Hills Cemetery in Sapulpa.

Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.