Doris "Bernice" (Clark) Dunn (2004)

DUNN, CLARK, DUFF

Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 7/12/2014 at 22:45:23

Daily Times Herald
Carroll, Iowa
May, 2004

Doris "Bernice" Dunn

Funeral service for Doris "Bernice" Dunn of Carroll will be at 2 p.m. Saturday May 29, 2004, at First United Methodist Church in Carroll.

Mrs. Dunn, 89, died Wednesday, May 26, at Carroll Health Center.

The Rev. Ken Ferguson will officiate the service. Organist will be Ellen Severlin and soloist will be Skip Raridon. The casket will be moved to the church at noon.

Casket bearers will be Lynn Dunn, Bruce Dunn, Douglas Dunn, Darien Dunn, Tim Dunn and James Dunn. Honorary casket bearers will be granddaughters Jillian Dunn, Megan Dunn and Carrie Dunn.

Burial will be in Carroll Cemetery.

Visitation started at 5 and a prayer service will be held at 7 tonight at Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll.

A daughter of Thomas Audley and Ada (Duff) Clark, she was born Oct. 2, 1914, at Winterset. She attended grade school there and graduated from Iowa Falls High School. She then received a MUSB from Ellsworth Conservatory of Music in 1940. After graduation she worked for the Advertiser newspaper in Ackley and Aplington.

She and Ralph W. Dunn were married Sept. 29, 1940, at the Little Brown Church in the Vale at Nashua.

Mrs. Dunn worked for the president of the Iowa Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association, and the Iowa Falls Chamber of Commerce during the fall festival for several years. She ran the Iowa Fall Chamber of Commerce for an interim period when the president passed away until a new president was found. She also worked for the Iowa Falls Monument Company.

In Carroll, Mrs. Dunn owned and operated the Mode-O-Day Dress Shop for 10 years, worked for North American Van Lines and worked for 15 years at Bob's Sports Center.

She was a member of Boston Ave. Methodist Church in Tulsa, the United Methodist Church in Carroll since 1945, Martha's Circle, the FLC Study Club and the Rebekah Lodge for 35 years.

Surviving are three sons: Lynn Dunn and his wife, Pam, of Lake View; Bruce Dunn and his wife, Pat, of Council Bluffs and Douglas Dunn and his wife, Peg, of Bloomington, Minn.; three grandsons; three granddaughters; a stepgranddaughter; a stepgrandson,; and nine great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Dunn was preceded in death by her parents; her twin brothers: Lloyd and Floyd; her husband, Ralph; and a granddaughter, Shaleen.