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officiating. The body lay in state at the Gunn & Gunn Clinic. Hundreds of friends called.
Quartet which included Mrs Garner Searcy & Mr. & Mrs. John W. Nelson sang "The Old
Rugged Cross" which had been sung at his mothers funeral. Mr Searcy also sang "Home on
the Range" which was a favorite with Dr. Gunn. Burial in Versailles cemetery with Kidwell"s
Service. Dr Gunn was born in Versailles March 1885. A son of Dr. and Mrs. Gunn. Active
pallbearers were: Dr. M. S. Otten, Roy Otten, Warren Boles, Johnny Keyes, Rufus Harms,
Don K. Hunter, Mel Hughes, Charles Smoyer and Hugh Hart. Doctors and other friends
served as Honary Pallbearers. Received medical training at Barnes Medical College in St.
Louis. Graduated in 1908. He went to Florence to start medical practice. After 2 years in
Florence, ill health forced Dr. Gunn to go to Texas, first to Uvalde and later to La Pryor. He
remained there 3 years practicing medicine there. He spent 2 years in a sanitorium in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, as a patient and as a physician. Upon his return to Versailles he
and his brother, Dr. A.J. Gunn opened an office in the old IOOF building. Leter they moved
to the Heineman building and in 1936 built the present building. Dr. Gunn first married Miss
Kate Hardy, a daughter of the late Mr. & Mrs. D.C. Hardy Sr. She died and their only
daughter Miss Florence Gunn died in the fall of 1932. On Feb. 22, 1933 Dr. Gunn & Miss
Beatrice Sherrell of Texas county were married. He is survived by his wife, a sister: Mrs.
Walter Frances; his brother Dr. A.J. Gunn; 2 neices: Mrs William Carr of Eldon and Mrs.
Archie Roark of Versailles; 2 nephews: Jack and Gregory Gunn. He had a heart attack on
return from a call on a patient, in his car parked in front of the clinic. He was a member of
two pioneer families of Morgan county, one of his grandfathers, J.D. Thruston, laid out the
original plot of Versailles and was authorized to do so at a meeting of the county court at the
home of Dr. Gunn"s other grandfather. Published 1947 - (Thomas and Sarah Boatwright
Gunn desc)
William H. Gunn
62, 121 East Reed Street of Benton,[Illinois] died yesterday at the Moore Hospital where he
had been a patient fro the past two months. Mr. Gunn was a miner, employed at Orient No. 2.
He was Sunday School superintendent of the Trinity Baptist church in West City and was a
member of the United Mine Workers and the Masonic Lodge. He had lived in the county for
the past 39 years. He is survived by his wife, Verna, his mother, Eliza Kimmel of Piqua, O and
three children: Mrs. Genevieve Shaw, Batavia, IL; Mrs. Ruth Ann Kelley, Marquette, Mich,
and Mrs. Maxine Marcussen, Chicago. He also leaves a brother, Louie Gunn of
Thompsonville and the following half-brothers and sisters; Homer and Dan Kimmel,
Covington, O; James Kimmel, Dayton, O; Lee Kimmel, Mrs. Bertha Penrod and Mrs. Hazel
Kruse, Piqua, O. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Trinity
Baptist church with Reverends Stalcup and Stockton officiating. Interment will be in the
Masonic and Odd Fellows cemetery under the direction of the Mitchell Funeral Home. The
body will lie in state at the funeral home. Source: Benton Evening News dated Thursday,
March 8, 1951 (Thomas and Sarah Boatwright Gunn desc)
William Hains Gunn
July 18, 2002, Montgomery County, Illinois. William Haines Gunn,Taylorville, Il. Breeze
Courier, Friday July 19, 2002 - William Haines Gunn, 75, of Raymond died Wednesday, July
17, 2002, in St. John's North. He was born January 4, 1927, in Morrisonville, the son of