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achelors degree in education in 1954 and his masters degree in 1960 from the University
of Missouri at Columbia. He.was a former coach at West Junior High ;School.in Columbia
and had been principal at Parkade since 1971. . Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday
at the Memorial Funeral Home in Columbia.Memorial contributions to the Heart
Association 'are suggested.
John Gunn
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) - — John Gunn, the leading rebounder on the Memphis State
basketball team, died Tuesday Dec 21, 1976 at a Memphis hospital after an emergency
tracheotomy for complications arising from a rare illness known as Stevens- Johnson
syndrome. The 21-year-old Memphis youth suffered a partially collapsed lung and a drop
in his Wood oxygen level before undergoing the emergency procedure. A nurse at the
hospital confirmed Gunn's death but said she had no more information. The 6-9 center was
stricken with the rare condition Dec. 11 before Memphis State’s game with Baylor. Gunn,
a 21-year-old junior, last played in a Dec. 9 game against Drake, where he scored 13 points
and snatched 10 rebounds.
John Gunn
Macon, Georgia - July 21 - John Gunn a horse trader took six grams of morphine tonight
and is dying. The rash act was caused by despondency. Charlotte Observer - July 22, 1897
John Gunn
Alameda, Ca September 28, 1898— Alameda- has lost another old and highly esteemed
resident in the death of John Gunn who died Monday Sept 26, at the home of his daughter
Mrs. E.
Hurley,. 446- East -Twentieth street. East Oakland. Mr. Gunn who was 85 years of age ,
was a native of Shetland who came to this coast in the early days and engaged in the
cooperage
business San Franciso. He came to Almeda and farmed a tract of land in the city. His wife
died about three years ago, and he leaves two sons and three daughters; Police Officer W.
A. Gunn of this city, John Gunn Jr., Mrs. E. Burley o f . East Oakland, Mrs. Vernon
Seaman of New'York and Mrs. Henry White of San Francisco. Her funeral took place at
2:20 P. M. today.
John Gunn,
53, dies; Former Norfolk Man - (The Ledger Star, March 28, 1975) MECHANICSBURG,
Pa. - J ohn Lindsey Gunn, (Jr.) 53, native of Norfolk and the son of Mrs. Eileen Kirby
Gunn and the late J. Lindsey Gunn, died here Friday. Gunn, a former advertising
representative with the Ledger Star and The Virginian Pilot, and with a local advertising
agency, was a graduate of the University of Virginia and a Marine veteran of World War
II. Later, he went into government service and at the time of his retirement last year, he
was director of the analysis branch of the Ships Parts Control Center in Mechanicsburg.
Other surviers include his wife, Mrs. Carolyn Graham Gunn; a daughter. Miss Mary
Lindsey Gunn; three sisters, Mrs. James A. Smith, Mrs. Edward H. Kavanaugh of Norfolk
and Mrs. David Connery of Rockport Texas; two brothers, Air Force Lt. Col. William