Dana George Rumbaugh

Dana George Rumbaugh of Cumming, GA, went to be with his Savior on Monday, July 24, 2024. Dana was born in Downer’s Grove, Illinois in 1930. He served in the Coast Guard from 1950 - 1953. He married his childhood sweetheart, Billie Louise Keith at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta in 1956. For the first year, they lived in California and then relocated to the Atlanta area where they raised their three sons.

Dana worked at Brownell Electro in College Park for 30 years as a manager. Upon his retirement, he worked at Peach State Instruments in Marietta as an electronics technician. Dana was fascinated by and gifted with fixing all things mechanical including his beloved cars. He loved opera, Churchill, Jacque Cousteau’s programs, and chocolate-covered cherries. A voracious reader, Dana particularly loved books about theology and WWII marine battles. He also was a fan of C.S. Lewis, P.G. Wodehouse, Dickens and James Heriot.

His greatest love was his wife Billie, to whom he was devoted until her death in 1992. After the loss of his wife, he found comfort in the Bible and came to believe in Jesus’ love for him. He was a member of Marietta First United Methodist Church led by his dear friend Dr. Charles Sineath. He also attended Mountain View Community Church in Jasper and most recently Roswell Community Church in Roswell. He was preceded in death by his parents Richard B. Rumbaugh and Evelyn Wolf Rumbaugh, his wife Billie Louise Keith, his brother Richard B. Rumbaugh Jr., sister Nancy R. Buffington, and one son, Gus Clayton Rumbaugh. He is survived by his sons John Barton (Joan) Rumbaugh, Will Cantey (Eve) Rumbaugh, his grandchildren Anna (Nick) Jones, Alivia (Kenny) Hall, JB (Anabel) Rumbaugh, Mia Rumbaugh, Emma Rumbaugh, Zoe Rumbaugh, his great-grandchildren Brayden and Thatcher Jones, Andrea Hall, and Eli Rumbaugh and numerous nieces and nephews. 

There will not be a funeral service. Dana hoped that the life he lived pointed to Jesus and life with Him forever. A last request was to hear 1Corinthians 13.