Mike Cunningham – age 58, of Rolfe, Iowa, passed away on Friday, October 29, 2021, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa.

Michael Lee Cunningham was born November 6, 1962 in Macon, Missouri. He was the son of Lawrence and Edna (Carothers) Cunningham. Mike attended country school and grade school in Putnam County, Missouri. In the early 1980s, Mike married Kim Billington. They lived in Lucerne, Missouri where they had two children together, Carrie and Stephen. Mike worked as a ranch hand, working many cattle at sale barns. On May 19, 2002, Mike married Margaret "Lynn" Rink on a farm near Lucerne. The couple lived in Lemons, Missouri for 10 years, until moving to Rolfe in 2012.

Mike was known in Missouri Sale Barns as Pee Dong and when he moved up to Iowa he became Cotton Eye or Hillbilly. If you knew Mike, you would find him at one of his favorite fishing spots or on his mower. When he had to be inside, he would be tinkerin' on something.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret; children, Carrie of Carrboro, NC and Stephen of Green Castle, MO; brothers, Ronnie of Unionville, MO, David of Kirksville, MO and Mark of Unionville, MO and sisters, Janet of Trenton, MO and Marge of Unionville, MO. Mike was preceded in death by his parents.