"Buck" Gunn two sisters, Clarene Weaver and Avie Ann Bowman his wife, Dorothy Daniel Gunn of Alberta four stepdaughters, Destiny Danyel, Janice Daniel, Patricia Vaughan and Donna Daniel seven stepgrandchildren and six stepgreat-grandchildren. He is survived by three sons, Mike Gunn, Ed Gunn and Bob Gunn 10 grandchildren, Chad Gunn, Ryan Gunn, Greg Gunn, Kerri Heatwole, Sara Gibson, Lance Dorin, Aaron Dorin, Olivia Dare Dorin, Reagan Dorin and Eddie Gunn 10 great-grandchildren, 132 foster sons two brothers, Eldrid Gunn and R.R. He was the husband of the late Juanita Hawkins Gunn and father of the late Tina Gunn Dorin. Edwards Funeral Home 90 Aaron Oliver Gunn, 82, a retired tobacco farmer and horseman of Kenbridge, Va. Burial will follow at All Saints Cemetery of Memphis. Funeral services will be today at 10 a.m., at Anointed Temple of Praise. Last week was just one death shy of that record.Gunn Obituaries Aaron Gunn 46, of Memphis, died, Monday, July 17, 2006. The highest number of deaths for the entire pandemic happened at the end of October. In total, more than 1,100 people have lost their lives to the virus in the Kansas City metro. "But I don't think that they want to succeed in a pandemic like this." "It's a thriving business and everyone wants to succeed in their business," Strickland said. We can't do that anymore."Īmong the changes, the funeral home now offers a livestream of funeral services to limit seating at 150 and a crew deep cleans nightly to make sure everyone stays healthy. "And so it's hard when you see grieving widows and widowers and mothers and fathers that need that love and support that we once used to do. You can't do that," Ryan Strickland Sr., apprentice funeral director at the Serenity Funeral Home, said. We weren't able to just a handshake when people come in, you know, all the things that are thoughtful that you feel like you need at that time. "The loss of my grandmother early in April – we weren't able to physically hug one another. It's done with compassion because for some staff, COVID is personal. "The way we conduct services, the way we meet with families, the way we have to operate daily, everyday has changed," Adkins said. This year, they have done more than 450 with three weeks remaining in the year. ![]() In the five years Serenity Funeral Home has been in operation, its staff made arrangements for about 250 cases annually. ![]() Since then, they've served the families of 70 to 80 people who have died to due to the novel coronavirus. RELATED: Funeral home uses live stream service for virtual funerals "It was probably a little over a month before we were able to do the actual service and then burial for the very first one," Adkins said. He also said the South Kansas City facility handled the arrangements for the first COVID-19 death in the metro. "But we can only do so many services a day, and so now we're booking maybe three weeks out, and I'm talking about every day, sometimes two and three a day," Adkins said. Staff at the Serenity Funeral Home are working seven days a week to meet the demand as more people lose their life to COVID-19. It's emotional on the staff and the team as a whole," Michael Adkins, owner of the Serenity Funeral Home, said. A vaccine for COVID-19 could be approved within days, but it comes as the Kansas City metro has lost so many loved ones that funeral homes are now booked weeks in advanced.
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