Funeral serviceswere held at the Methodist Church in
Versailles for Dr. William Gregory Gunn,   62 years old.
Died of heart Attack.  Rev. Val B. Strader
assisted by J.L. Freeman 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 aslo 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 Pallgearers.  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 duaghter 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
Texax 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.