Stanley Bunn, 89

Stanley Bunn was born to William and Phylis (Trevarrow) Bunn on a frosty morning on Dec. 3, 1923, in Phillipsburg, N.J. He grew up there with an older sister, Dorothy (Bunn) Dieckman; older brother, William Bunn and a younger sister, Virginia (Bunn) Hoglund.

He graduated from P’burg High School in the class of 1941 at the age of 17. Not long after our country was plunged into World War II on Dec. 7, 1941. He and two of his school chums all agreed to volunteer to serve in the U.S. Navy. He was assigned as a gunnery crew member in the Armed Guard. He spent the first two years plying back and fourth on the Atlantic Ocean delivering oil on many different oil tankers.

During this time he learned that his sister, Dorothy, might be on a hospital ship in the area as she was an Army nurse. With the help of the Red Cross he found her only 15 miles from where he was docked. He hitchhiked a ride to where she was and they enjoyed lunch together. Then he had to get back to his ship and didn’t see her again until after the war ended. Small world.

Sometime after that he was transferred to the Aleutian Islands and remained there until the war was over. He spent 18 miserable months in Alaska never suspecting he would move out west and one day move to Alaska with his wife “Sue” and live in Anchorage, Alaska, for 10 years. They enjoyed all Alaska had to offer, especially fishing. They bought an acre of land on waterfront property and Stan built, by himself, a really nice cabin on Willow Creek which was known as a good salmon creek. Needless to say, they ate a lot of really fresh salmon. Stan also enjoyed going out of Seward, Alaska, on charter boats to fish for halibut.

In December 1985 they decided they had better move back to their farm in Cougar Gulch to be near their children. Stan and Sue celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on May 20 of this year. Stan left us on a warm fall evening on Aug. 1, 2013. Cremation has taken place and there will be a family scattering of ashes on the family farm on a lovely fall day.

Stan was predeceased by his parents; a sister and brother. He also has a deceased son, David Bunn. He is survived by his wife, Sue; daughter, Priscilla Baker (Gary) and Holly Kincaid (Bill); one sister, Virginia Hoglund; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The 1941 KARUX senior class book wrote this about Stan: “Stan has always taken life easy. He has just drifted along taken what was given to him without complaint. He was always satisfied.”