ORANGE
Funeral services for Robert D. Cummings, co-founder and executive director of the Dayle McIntosh Center for the Disabled, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Fairhaven Memorial Park and Mortuary in Santa Ana.
Cummings was 51 when he died of diabetes complications Thursday at his home in Orange. Cummings, who was legally blind at 22 and totally blind for the last 13 years, was known as a pioneer and advocate for the disabled. The center, of which he was executive director for the past nine years, is one of the largest in the nation, helping people with disabilities live independently.
He is survived by daughter Jennifer, mother Grace Myers, brother John and nephew John.
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