Rebecca A. Sumner was born Sept. 26, 1933 in Limestone County, Alabama to George Washington Tribble and Willie Pearl Tribble.
She spent most of her childhood in Ardmore and Athens, Alabama before moving to Michigan where she met and married Gene Sumner in 1955.
They began married life in Pontiac Michigan before relocating to Lake Orion Michigan.
Upon retirement from the U. S. Postal Service in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, she and her husband moved to the Baileyton, Alabama area and became very involved within the community and the Baileyton Senior Citizen Center where she made lifelong friends whom she dearly loved. Rebecca was a lifelong member of the Eastern Star.
Rebecca was survived by husband Gene Sumner; children Dewayne Sumner and wife Susan, and Michelle Fisher and husband Jim Fisher; one grandchild Michele Sumner; brother Ray Tribble and his wife Margaret of Cullman, Alabama; many nieces and nephews; and many grand-animals!
She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter Deborah Sumner; and brother Douglas Tribble.
There will be no service at this time and in lieu of flowers the family has asked that donations be made to Alzheimer’s research.
