DOROTHY MCLAUGHLIN

Memorial services for Dorothy Smith Gunn McLaughlin, 88, of Rusk was at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Rusk First Baptist Church with the Rev. Lee Welch and the Rev. Clifford Horton officiating. She died April 30. She was born Oct. 16, 1919, in St. Paul, Minn. to the late Lawrence R. and Ethel Edna Jackson Smith.

She was a resident of Houston before moving to Rusk 10 years ago. She graduated from John H. Reagan High School in Houston. Mrs. McLaughlin retired in January 1981 from Fidelity and Deposit Company in Houston after 25 years of service.

She was a member of First Baptist Church in Rusk and the Study Club.

Preceding her in death were her husbands, William B. Gunn, Floyd A. Hutcheson, Philip L. McLaughlin; and sister, Margaret E. Smith. Survivors are one son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Beverly Gunn of Quitman; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Sylvia Orton of Johnson City, Barbara and Bill Chadwick of Rusk and Mary and Tim Son of San Antonio; a step-son, James McLaughlin of Austin; nine grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

Wallace-Thompson was in charge

May 7, 2008

Information from the Cherokeean Herald

Dorothy Smith Gunn McLaughlin

Memorial services for Dorothy Smith Gunn McLaughlin, age 88, of Rusk are scheduled for 4 p.m., Saturday, May 3, 2008 in First Baptist Church in Rusk with Rev. Lee Welch and Rev. Clifford Horton officiating under the direction of Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home in Rusk. Mrs. McLaughlin died April 30, 2008 in a Tyler Hospice. She was born Oct. 16, 1919 in St. Paul, Minnesota to the late Lawrence R. and Ethel Edna Jackson Smith. She was a resident of Houston before moving to Rusk 10 years ago. She graduated from John H. Reagan High School in Houston. Mrs. McLaughlin retired in January of 1981 from Fidelity and Deposit Company in Houston after 25 years of service. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Rusk as well as the Rusk Study Club. She was preceded in death by her husbands, William B. Gunn, Floyd A Hutcheson and Philip L. McLaughlin; and one sister Margaret E. Smith. She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Beverly Gunn of Quitman; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Sylvia Orton of Johnson City, Barbara and Bill Chadwick of Rusk, Mary and Tim Son of San Antonio; step son, James McLaughlin of Austin; nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren. Published in the Jacksonville Daily Progress on 5/2/2008.

Published in the Jacksonville Daily Progress