Caldwell County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....DUNN, Creston C. June 1, 2001

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The Caldwell Watchman, 6 June 2001
Headline: Creston C. Dunn, August 13, 1893 - June 1, 2001

Services for Creston C. Dunn, age 107, of Columbia, LA, were 2 p.m. on Sunday, 
June 3, in the chapel of Riser Funeral home in Columbia with Elder Harry Burns, 
Jr., officiating.  Jim Sherman will deliver the eulogy.  Burial with masonic 
graveside rites was at the Old Union Cemetery.

Mr. Dunn died Friday, June 1, 2001, in Citizens Medical Center in Columbia.

Mr. Dunn was born in Jackson Parish on August 13, 1893, to Sebron Gray Dunn and 
Rittieann May Dunn.  He was a life-long resident of Louisiana and had the 
distinction of having lived in three centuries and two millennia.

In the early 1900's, he worked laying tracks and building bridges for some of 
the first railroads in the state.  He was a streetcar conductor in Monroe, LA, 
when only the downtown streets were brick paved.  He was a logging contractor 
for Urania Lumber Company and also worked for Louisiana Central Lumber Company 
in Clarks, LA, before being employed as a deputy with the Caldwell Parish 
Sheriff's Department under the late Sheriff G. E. "Buddy" Erskine.  In 1964, he 
retired as chief deputy.

After retirement, he served on the town council of Columbia and as special 
deputy under former Sheriff Floyd "Slim" Hodges.

Mr. Dunn was a member of Mt. Pleasant Primitive Baptist church, Grayson, LA, 
and was a member of the Rosemary Masonic Lodge.  Having been raised a Master 
Mason in 1919, he served thirteen years as master of the lodge and was the 
oldest Mason in Louisiana.

Mr. Dunn was preceded in death by his first wife, Rowena Hanchey Dunn, and his 
second wife; Eula Blackmon Johnson Dunn, two sons, Rupert L. Dunn and Curtis M. 
Dunn; three granddaughters, Suzanne Dunn, Lynn Dunn Harris, and Dianna Fry and 
one great-grandson, Spencer Fore.

Survivors are sons: Monk Dunn and daughter, Myrtle Sanders of Shreveport, son 
John P. Johnson of Atlanta, TX; daughter Marilyn Fore of DeVille, LA; daughter 
Nelda Linn of Dallas, TX; daughter Kathryn Willis of Monroe; and daughters 
Geraldine Sherman and Amanda Dannehl and son Billy Dunn, all of Columbia; 
twenty grandchildren; thirty-nine great-grandchildren; and eleven great-great-
grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Billy Bennett, James Stuart, Bob McIlwain, Eugene Dunn, David 
Erskine and Sam Henry.

Honorary pallbearers were Floyd "Slim" Hodges, William "Hoot" Reitzel, Charles 
Thompson, Steve May, Wilbur Hillestad.


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