The Topeka Daily Capital Monday April 3, 1961 Omer W. Cunningham. Omer W. (Slim) CUNNINGHAM, 58, of 1010 Jefferson died Sunday in a Topeka hospital after a long illness. he was employed 23 years by Santa Fe Trails as a motor freight operator. He lived in Topeka 37 years and was a member of Truck Drivers' Union No. 696. Surviving are two sons, J.W. Cunningham at home and Harold Dean Cunningham of the U.S. Army in Germany; his mother, Mrs. Ethel Cunningham at home; and two brothers, James C. Cunningham of Burlington, Colo., and Orla T. Cunningham of Topeka. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Penwell-Gabel Chapel with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.