COLUMBIA - Services for Creston C. Dunn will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Riser, Columbia, with Harry Burns Jr. officiating. Jim Sherman will deliver the eulogy. Burial with Masonic graveside rite will be in Old Union Cemetery. Dunn, 107, of Columbia died Friday, June 1, 2001, in Citizens Medical Center, Columbia. He was born in Jackson Parish on Aug. 13, 1893, to Sebron Gray Dunn and Rittieann May Dunn. He was a lifelong resident of Louisiana and had the distinction of having lived in three centuries and two millennia. In the early 1900s, he worked laying tracks and building bridges for some of the first railroads in the state. He was a streetcar conductor in Monroe. He was a logging contractor for Urania Lumber Company and also worked for Louisiana Central Lumber Company in Clarks before being employed as a deputy with the Caldwell Parish Sheriff's Department. In 1964, he retired as chief deputy. After retirement, he served on the town council of Columbia. He was a member of Mt. Pleasant Primitive Baptist Church, Grayson, and was a member of Rosemary Masonic Lodge. In 1919, he was raised as master mason, served 13 years as master of the lodge and was the oldest mason in Louisiana. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Rowena Hanchey Dunn; his second wife, Eula Blackmon Johnson Dunn; two sons, Rupert L. Dunn and Curtis M. Dunn; three grandchildren, Suzanne Dunn, Lynn Dunn Harris and Dianna Fry; and one great-grandchild, Spencer Fore. Survivors include three sons, Monk Dunn of Shreveport, John P. Johnson of Atlanta, Texas, and Billy Dunn of Columbia; six daughters, Myrtle Sanders of Shreveport, Marilyn Fore of Deville, Nelda Linn of Dallas, Kathryn Willis of Monroe, Geraldine Sherman and Amanda Dannehl, both of Columbia; 20 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. (Published in The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, June 2, 2001) Pallbearers will be Billy Bennett, James Stuart, Bob McIlwain, Eugene Dunn, David Erskine and Sam Henry. Friends may call from 3-9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. until time of services Sunday in the funeral home.
- Ron Manley
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