The Ken Cunningham Home Page:Information about Kenneth Ray Cunningham
Kenneth Ray Cunningham (b. September 22, 1933)
Notes for Kenneth Ray Cunningham:
Ken was born in Justiceburg, Texas, a three building town southeast of Post, Texas in Garza County, on a dry land cotton farm during the dust bowl and the great depression. The family soon moved to Elmdale where the family opened a gas station and country store on old US Hiway 80. Elmdale is a few miles east of Abilene, Texas.
Ken joined the Naval Reserve in 1949, then re-enlisted for a full four year term in 1951. While in the navyhe trained at Coronado Amphibious Base near San Diego in UDT-Seal Unit, team 11. Among the various ships he served on were the heavy cruiser CA-75 USS Helena, the USS Geo. Clymer, the USS Henrico, the USS Talladega,and the USS Renville. He served on the staff of Commodore Fritz Gliem.
After leaving the navy, he tried his hand in the egg business, worked at the CFI as a steelworker, worked at sales for several years in the wholesale paper business, as a marketing and mangement consultant before entering teaching.
He attended school at Abilene High School in Tx., Pueblo Jr. College, Red Rocks College, Univ. Of Northern Colo., Colo. State Univ. and the University of Minnesota. He retired in 1991.
Taught at Red Rocks College, Metropolitain State College, Univ. of Colo. At Denver, Aurora Community College and Arapahoe Community College.
More About Kenneth Ray Cunningham and Patricia Sue (Patsy) Hatton:
Marriage: Raton, New Mexico.
More About Kenneth Ray Cunningham and Carrie Ann Elliott:
Marriage: February 14, 1959, Pueblo, Colorado.
Children of Kenneth Ray Cunningham and Patricia Sue (Patsy) Hatton are:
- Louis Wayne Cunningham, b. July 05, 1954, Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego, California.
- +Kendra Frances Cunningham, b. June 02, 1956, Pueblo, Colorado.
- +David Henderson Cunningham, b. August 13, 1957, Pueblo, Colorado.
Children of Kenneth Ray Cunningham and Carrie Ann Elliott are:
- +Cheryl Gay Cunningham, b. October 14, 1959, Pueblo, Colorado.
- +Kenneth Ray II Cunningham, b. February 08, 1961, Pueblo, Colorado.