Dale Marie Cunningham of Phenix City, Alabama joyfully and peacefully transitioned in her home on March 19, 2025.

Visitation will be from 3 - 5 p.m. EST, Monday, March 31, 2025 at Taylor Funeral Home.

Born in Chicago, Illinois on December 12, 1957, to Johnnie Lewis and Duffie Powell-Lewis. Dale grew up in Altgeld Gardens on the Southside of Chicago, where she attended Carver High School.

In 1976 she married her high school sweetheart, the late Ledger Jolliff Jr. Together they had and raised three children Lamar, Jenise and Jennifer in and around the Chicago area.

Later in life Dale's mother persuaded her and her sister, Linda, to enroll in nursing school. After completing years of studies at Ivy Tech in Gary, Indiana, she, and her sister went on to have successful careers in nursing. Dale cared for and touched the hearts of many in Indiana, Alabama, and Georgia.

In 1997, Dale decided to move her family to Phenix City, Alabama where she resided at the time of death. In Phenix City, Dale built a home away from home. Her family grew, her children flourished, and she redeveloped her passion for sewing. Along with sewing, Dale was an avid reader of all things romance. She also loved food and enjoyed cooking for her family, especially her Grandchildren. Dale had a green thumb that could grow anything, including hair and she loved all things HGTV and Lifetime.

Dale is preceeded in death by both parents, Johnnie Lewis and Duffie McGhee, her elder sisters, Catherine Halliburton and Vellean Gillis, and her niece Tirzah Lewis. Those she leaves behind to cherish her memory is her estranged husband Kenneth Cunningham of Gary, Ind., her siblings Johnnie Lee Lewis of Gary, Ind., Linda (Larry) Rogers of Indianapolis, Ind., Rickey (Carolyn) Lewis of Indianapolis, Ind., Lisa Lewis of Mobile, Al., Willie Lewis of Gary Ind., Dana (Allyn) Green-Bynum of Baldwin, NY., Anthony Lewis of East Chicago, Ind. and Georgia (Bernice) Jackson of Phenix City, Al., her three children Lamar (Amanda) Jolliff, Jenise Jolliff and Jennifer Jolliff all of Phenix City, Al. , five grandchildren Imani Gethers, Debeniare Jolliff, Tashanique Jolliff, Joshua Blake and Jeremiah Jolliff, her bonus grandchild Takeitha Clark, her grand dog Pepsi Jolliff, her nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, and great great grand nieces and nephews, other family members, friends and lifelong girlfriends.