The Rochester Sentinel 1970 - Fulton County Public Library

Final rites will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Foster & Good funeral home. The
Rev. Allen JUMP will officiate. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at
the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday.
Sgt. Joseph Nunn
The Vietnam War shas struck Fulton county for the 12th time with the combat death of
Army Sgt. Joe NUNN, 21, of Leiters Ford.
The son of Mrs. Delores ENGELBRECHT and step-son of Raymond ENGELBRECHT,
who live just south of Leiters Ford in Aubbeenaubbee township, Sgt. Nunn was killed Saturday on
a combat mission in South Vietnam. He was a member of the 199th Lightning Brigade.
Sgt. Nunn’s wife is the former Linda SLUSHER of Culver. The couple’s first child, a
girl, was born four months ago. Mrs. Slusher has been rsiding with her parents, Mr and Mrs.
Wilbur SLUSHER of Culver, while her husband was overseas.
The sergeant had been in Vietnam only seven weeks. He entered the Army last April.
Sgt. Nunn was an outstandinb basketball player for the former Aubbeenaubbee high
school in 1964-65 and 1965-66. Although only six feet tall, he played center and as a senior he
scored over 30 points in three different games, his high being 39.
After graduation from Aubbee in 1966, Nunn worked at the farm od Doug FELTIS in
Aubbeenaubbee township until entering the service.
Surviving with the wife, child, mother and step-father are five sisters and a brother.
Fulton county’s first Vietham War death came in February of 1963. County victims of
the hostilities in addition to Sgt. Nunn have been James TALBOTT, Kewanna; James AMEIGH,
Disko; Neil McKINNEY, Roger MANNS and Dennis FAIRCHILD, all of Akron; James UTTER
and Marvin WHITE, both of Talma, and Timothy ROE, James BALLINGER, Lawrence GIBSON
and George PACKARD, all of Rochester.
Friday, May 1, 1970
Sgt Joseph L. Nunn
Final rites aree pending at the Easterday-Bonine funeral home, Culver, for Sgt. Joseph L.
NUNN, 21, R.R. 1, Culver, who ecame Fulton county’s 12th Vietnam war victim Saturday.
His body is being returned to the funeral home.
Sgt. Nunn was married Aug. 16, 1969 in Culver to Linda S. SLUSHER, who survives.
Also surviving are one daughter, Leah Marie [NUNN], at home; his father, Loren NUNN,
Kentucky; his step-father and his mother, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond ENGELBRECHT, R.R. 4,
Rochester; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph STROBEL, Culver; one brother, Kevin COX,
Rochester, and five sisters, Mrs. Paulette WASHBURN, Miss Pam NUNN, and Mrs. Debora
CROY, all of Culver, and Miss Lisa NUNN and Miss Michelle ENGELBRECHT, both of
Rochestr.