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GYSGT Curtis Leslie Dunn

12 Jun 1891 – 24 Oct 1938

Birth	12 Jun 1891
Death	24 Oct 1938
Cemetery	Jefferson City National Cemetery Jefferson City , Cole County , Missouri , USA
Added by	Tina on 16 Nov 2008
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Daily Capital News (Jefferson City MO) - Page 1 - October 25, 1938: Funeral services for Probate Judge Curtis L. Dunn, 47, who died yesterday after a 10-day illness of complications, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Baptist church. The body of the judge, one of the most widely known men in central Missouri, will lie in state at the Thorpe J. Gordon Funeral chapel until the hour of the funeral. Interment will be made in the National Cemetery. Members of the Roscoe Enloe Post of the American Legion will fire a salute and sound taps at the graveside. Pallbearers had not been selected last night. Judge Dunn had been in failing health for several months but his condition had not been regarded as serious until about eleven days ago when he was taken to St. Mary's hospital. Hospital attaches said Sunday he was improving and death came unexpectedly. Dunn was born in Callaway county June 12, 1891, a son of Richard Rufus and Fannie J. Stubbenfield Dunn. He was a newspaperman, lawyer and soldier, and was active in Democratic politics. He first came to Jefferson City as a student in the high school. He later attended the Colorado State Agricultural College and Missouri University. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and formed a partnership with W.C. Irwin which continued until 1927 when he was first elected probate judge. Judge Dunn would have completed his third term in the office in January. He saw action in the World war with the Marine Aviation force and was wounded. He was the editor of the Cedar City Chronicle before the war. He worked a short time here as a printer, continuing his membership in the typographical union long before he was admitted to the bar. Judge Dunn, who was twice married, is survived by his wife, Sadie H. Turner; two children, Jane May and Curtis Leslie, Jr., his parents and three brothers. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, and a member of the American Legion and the Disabled War Veterans. Courtesy of Contributor: Becky Kennedy (48464338) ******************************************************************************************************* Curtis L. Dunn, probate judge of Cole County, was born in the adjoining county of Callaway June 12, 1891, the son of Richard Rufus and Fannie J. Stubblefield Dunn, both natives of Callaway County. Judge Dunn attended high school in Jefferson City. He then went to the Colorado Agricultural College at Fort Collins, following which he attended the Missouri State University. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1923, following which he formed a partnership with W.C. Irwin which continued until he assumed the duties of probate judge January 1, 1927. Judge Dunn served in the First Marine Aviation Force during World War I, and was wounded in service. Prior to the war he edited a newspaper at Cedar City and worked as a printer in Jefferson City. He was associated with his father in real estate business before and after the war. June 21, 1933, he was married to Mrs. Sadie H. Turner. He had two children by a former marriage, Jane May and Curtis Leslie Jr. Judge Dunn was always active in the service of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, of the U.S.D.V. of the state bar association and of the Cole County bar association, the American Legion and the Disabled Veterans. The Dunn family is of Virginia origin. The father of R. R. Dunn in 1834 came to Callaway County from that state, from a location now included in the state of West Virginia. He married the daughter of Captain John M. Reed, who with his wife came from Kentucky to Callaway County in 1837, and entered land near New Bloomfield. Captain Reed, a farmer, real estate operator, member of the Baptist Church, was prominent in Callaway County during his lifetime. The Stubblefield family, to which Judge Dunn's mother belongs, came to Callaway County from Tennessee.

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Missouri. Gunnery Sgt. U.S. Marine Corps.

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