Jeanette Walton Gunn

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Jeanette Walton Gunn, lovingly referred to as “Muff”, 93, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, December 13, 2016. A Memorial Service will be held on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. in the chapel at Mulberry Street United Methodist Church. The family will receive visitors at 105 Maimont Circle after the service. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests memorial contributions to Mulberry Street United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 149, Macon, GA 31202-0149.

Mrs. Gunn was a native of Leary, GA, and graduated from Shorter College. She raised her family on Gunn Farms in Perry and moved to Hilton Head Island in the late 1970’s. Jeanette owned J. Gunn Ltd. Interiors in Warner Robins and later in Hilton Head Island, SC. Jeanette had a love of fine porcelain and was an avid collector of Boehm Porcelain. She generously donated much of her collection to the American Camellia Society and the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences. They moved to Macon in the early 1990’s. “Muff” loved to travel the world with her friends and later enjoyed many trips with her granddaughter, Jeana. She was a former member of Perry United Methodist Church, a member of Mulberry Street United Methodist Church, Idle Hour Country Club, and the Sorrell Club, a ladies service organization, in Perry. She was the last remaining of 6 children. She was also preceded in death by her loving husband of 51 years, Otis Benton Gunn, who passed away in 1997, and her son, Otis Walton Gunn, who passed away in 2008.

Left to cherish the memories of “Muff” are her son and daughter-in-law, Frank and Gail Gunn; her granddaughter and grandson-in-law, Jeanette “Jeana” Gunn Bush and Seth Bush; her great-grandchildren Gunn and Gates Bush; and several nieces and nephews.

The Gunn Family expresses a special “Thank You” to her caretakers, Edna Padgett, James Battle, Betty Randall, and Lawana Combs, everyone at Hospice Care Options, and especially her nurse, Adrian.

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