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Pallbearers will be Jack Montgomery, Robt. F. Kalous, Wayne Wise, Tom Sanders, Phil
Holman, Col. J. D. Reitz, Jack Kroll and Dr. John M. Brasher. Named honorary pallbearers
were McCall Sanders, Henry Herder, Ernest Scott, John Hudson, Leslie Townsend, John
Hajovsky and Thomas Holub.Mrs. Gunn is survived by: four children, Henry Gunn, Martha
Marsac, Margaret Larkin and David William Gunn and four grandchildren, Seth, Tye and
Sam Gunn and Ian Marsac. In lieu of other remembrances, friends are invited to give
memorials to the American Cancer Society, Delta Gamma Foundation, Colorado-Fayette
Medical Center, First United Methodist Church, Parkview Manor, or a charity of their
choice.Weimar Mercury, September 6, 1990
Virginia Hennis Gunn Vaden,
Greensboro, NC. - 85, died Friday, March 20, 2009, at Wesley Long Hospital. Funeral
services will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 23, at Hanes Lineberry N. Elm
Chapel, with Chaplain John Conner officiating, along with Rev. Larry Pugh and Rev. Bobby
Fann. Interment will be at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 24, at Ayersville Baptist Church in
Mayodan, N.C. Virginia was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church and she loved flowers
and NASCAR. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, four brothers, three
sisters and one grandchild She leaves behind, to remember her fondly, two daughters,
Barbara May and husband, Ronald, of Burlington, N.C., and Doris Lovings and husband,
Larry, of Greensboro; four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild.
The family will receive friends from 5:30 until 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 23,
prior to the service. The family would like to thank the staff and nurses at Hospice and
Palliative care unit at Wesley Long Hospital for the services and care given to Virginia.
Memorial donations may be made to Hospice and Palliative Care at Wesley Long Hospital,
Greensboro, N.C.; Victory Junction Gang, Randleman, N.C.; Hillcrest Baptist Church,
Greensboro, N.C.; or to Glen Raven Baptist Church, Burlington, N.C. Hanes Lineberry N.
Elm Chapel is assisting the Vaden family.
Virginia "Ginny" Gunn
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Virginia (Ginny) Gunn. Ginny, age 84, of Winston-Salem, died on
November 2, 2008, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. The daughter of Thomas Josiah
Jackson of Drakes Branch, VA, and Irene McKinstry of Cool Spring, PA, she was born in
Uniontown, PA, on July 7, 1924. She spent her childhood and teen years in Bluefield, WV.
She remembers paying the family" s water bill in person, at the office, to save the cost of a
stamp. She and her younger sister, Mary Jo, walked a block from home to Bowman" s
Neighborhood Grocery to buy Double Bubble gum and Eskimo Pies. She was a graduate of
Beaver High School, the Bluefield Sanitarium Clinical Lab, Queens College in Charlotte, NC
(BA), and Forsyth Technical College (RN). She married Charles G. Gunn, Jr., a lifelong
friend, in June, 1947. They had met at age two, in the crib nursery of Westminster
Presbyterian Church in Bluefield. She was employed during her husband" s medical
internship and residency years as a laboratory technician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit,
MI. An avid reader of historical novels, she loved Inglis Fletcher, and had a crush on the
writings of Rosamunde Pilcher and Frederick Buechner. She loved her kitchen and keeping
house. No task was a chore. The number of scribbled recipes stuffed in her 3 by 5 index card
box attests to her love of cooking. She loved dinners for eight (with place cards), Reuben
sandwiches, shopping at Fresh Market and Lowes and Harris Teeter, particularly with