Tressie Bunn 1900-1981

BUNN, WHEELER, BENNETT, HELM, MONTEGOMERY

Posted By: Ann Jaber (email)
Date: 3/8/2006 at 13:24:03

TRESSIE BUNN SERVICES HELD

Tressie Bunn, 80, of West Des Moines, formerly of Brooklyn died Monday, March 16, at the West Park Care Center in West Des Moines.

Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 pm Thursday at the Grace United Methodist Church in Brooklyn., with the Rev. Fred Pierce officiating. Pallbearers were Larry Bunn, David Bunn, Mel Helm, Gary Bunn, Brian Bunn and Denny Bunn. Burial was at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Brooklyn, with the Nevenhoven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

The daughter of Noble Wheeler and Millie Frances Bennett Bunn, she was born April 13, 1900, in Poweshiek County. She was married to John Bunn on March 23, 1918, in Victor. The couple had seven sons and four daughters. They lived in the Brooklyn area for over 50 years. Mrs. Bunn moved to Des Moines in 1979. She was a member of the Methodist Church and the South Side Circle.

Survivors include six sons. Noble Bunn, Jr. of Victor, Charles Bunn of Grinnell, Carroll Bunn of Des Moines, James Bunn of Illinois City, Ill., and Donald Bunn and John Bunn, Jr., both Brooklyn; two daughters, Ruth Helm of Boone and Frances Montgomery of Deep River; two brothers, Claude Wheeler of Phoenix, Ariz., and Earl Wheeler of Brooklyn; 24 grandchildren; five step-granchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1972; one son, George; two daughters, Kathryn and Dorothy; five brothers and two grandsons.

Brooklyn Chronicle, date unknown.