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Doyle Cummings, namesake for rose garden surfaces
Doyle Cumming roses
Doyle Cummings and wife Mary Williams were in Ceres last week after fleeing their house in the Caldor Fire. While staying with his son, the couple pruned roses at the Smyrna Park rose garden that has beared his name since the early 1970s. - photo by Jeff Benziger
Many a Ceres resident has spied the concrete monument sign noting the name attached to the rose garden at the northwest corner of Smyrna Park and wondered just who Doyle Cummings was. At least five decades have passed since the garden was planted at the corner of Moffet and Fowler roads and Cummings has remained an enigma.