The following information was submitted by Jerry Smith, a RM under Pres. Cullimore (one of the original 80 missionaries of the CBM).

Elder James A. Cullimore, an emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, died 14 June 1986, in a Salt Lake City hospital. He was eighty years old.
Elder Cullimore had served as a General Authority for more than twenty years, having been sustained as an Assistant to the Twelve on 6 April, 1966. He was one of the original members of the First Quorum of the Seventy, when it was organized in 1976, and was named to emeritus status in 1978.
James Alfred Cullimore was born 17 January 1906 in Lindon, Utah, one of twelve children of Albert Lorenzo Cullimore and Luella Keetch Cullimore. His father was a bishop and also owner of a grocery store, where young James received his early experience in retailing.
He served a mission to California in 1925-27, then returned to his schooling at Brigham Young University, where he had attended one year before his mission. He was elected student body president from 1930 to 1931.
It was in 1931 that he married another BYU student, Grace Gardner, in the Salt Lake Temple. She died in April of 1975. He later married Florence Smith Prows in 1977. She died in 1996.
After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree from BYU in 1931, James attended New York University School of Retailing on a scholarship, receiving a master's degree in 1932. He worked as a furniture buyer for Gimbel Brothers department store in New York City, then for a Chicago department store. He also worked in Sioux City Iowa before taking a job with an Oklahoma City furniture store in 1937. In 1946, he opened his own Oklahoma City furniture store, which quickly became successful.
James served the Church in a variety of positions during his business career, including as a branch president in Sioux City, Iowa, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and as president of the West Oklahoma district. When the Oklahoma City Stake was organized in 1960, he was called as it's first president. He had served in that position for only a matter of weeks, when he was called as president of the new Central British Mission.
Following his return from England, he was called to be a member of the Church's Priesthood Welfare Committee. In April 1966 he was called as an assistant to the Twelve.
James Alfred and Grace Gardner had three children, one son Kelvyn, and two daughters, Luella and Nancy.

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