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Mary Frances Gunn Ayers
age 80 of 221 Couper Street, Rome Georgia, passed away Wednesday morning February 4,
2009 in a local health care facility. Mrs. Ayers was born in Tuscaloosa on July 17, 1928, as
the daughter of Hughlon Habson Gunn and Florence Labert Coley Snider. She was
preceded in death by her parents and two sons, Donald Ayers and Duke Ayers. Mrs. Ayers
was employed for a number of years with Wagner Electric Co. in Boaz, prior to moving to
the Rome area in 1994. Upon her retirement, she was employed as a CNA with Mercy
Senior Care in Rome. She was a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star and was
a member of the First Baptist Church of Altoona. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.
Deanna Hall, and her husband, Joe, of Cedartown, Ga.; a son, William “Skip” Ayers, and
his wife, Susan, of Rome; five grandchildren, Andrea Ayers, of Gadsden, Joshua Hall, and
his wife, Kelly, of San Antonio, Jodi Hall, of Cedartown, Ben Ayers, of Jacksonville, and
Andrew Ayers, of Rome; two great-grandchildren, Brooke Hall, of San Antonio, and
Skyland Ayers, of Gadsden; a sister, Mrs. Linda Lowder, of Salisbury, N.C.; a brother,
H.E. Gunn, of Summerville, Ga.; and nieces and nephews. According to her wishes, Mrs.
Ayers was cremated. A memorial service will be today, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at 11:30
a.m. EST at the North Broad Baptist Church in Rome. The Revs. Tony Brooks and
Katrina Brooks will officiate. The family will receive friends at the North Broad Baptist
Church today from 10 a.m. EST until the service hour. At other times, they may be
contacted at their respective residences. According to Mrs. Ayers’ wishes, the family
respectfully requests no flowers. Memorials may be made to the North Broad Baptist
Church, 1309 N. Broad St. N.E., Rome, GA 30161, or to Mercy Senior Care, 212 W. Third
St., Rome, GA 30165
Mary Helen Gunn
Word was received last night by Frederick C. Gunn of the death of his mother, Mary Helen
Gunn in LaGrange, Ill. She had been in ill health for some time. Mrs. Gunn had been
well known in the social life of Kanss City. She was born at Spencerport, N. Y. In 1831.
Her father, Samuel Crosby was a veteran of the War of 1812. In which he was captured
by the British at the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, and her mother, Mrs. Mahitable Spaulding
Crosby was a sister of the late Elbridge Gerry Spaulding of Buffalo known as the father of
the greenback. Later they were two of the five founders of the First Congregational
Church on the Kansas side. Mrs. Gunn’s marriage to Maj Otis B. Gunn, then a young
engineer of the Rochester and Niagara Rails Railroad was soon after her graduation from
the Albany State Normal School. In 1836 they came by steamboat to Wyandotte where
they lived through the border troubles preceding and during the Civil War. Major Gunn
was the first member of the Kansas Senate elected from Wyanotte County, later was a
major in the 4 th Kansas Volunteers, and on the staff of the war governor, Charles
Robinson. He superintended the building of the old Union Sation and took an active part
in the railroad development of the Middle West. After the war the family moved to
Lawrence in order to give the older children the advantage of the university. There Mrs.
Gunn was one of the founders of the Friends in Council, one of the oldest literary