Emily Noble Dunn

Emily Noble Dunn died Sunday, November 3, 2002, having celebrated her 100th birthday last December. She was born in 1901 in Richmond. Her father was Charles Richard Noble, a businessman who served on the Richmond City Council. She attended Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1918 to 1920. She married William Lawrence Dunn in 1920 and was faithfully his wife until his death in 1976. During World War II she served in the American Red Cross. From 1955 to 1975 she was a substitute teacher in many of the Richmond City and Chesterfield County schools, at various elementary grade levels. She held leadership positions at the state and local levels of the Home Demonstration Club. She was church librarian and church historian at Branch’s Baptist Church for many years. She is survived by her only child, William Lawrence Dunn Jr.; daughter-in-law, Elisabeth O. Dunn; four grandchildren, Olga Dunn Burke, of Great Barrington, Mass., William Mark Dunn, of Richmond, Va., Alexandra Morbey, of Ottawa, Canada, and Lawrence Alexis Dunn, of Richmond, Va.; three great-grandsons, Simeon Andrew Morbey, Rowan William Morbey, and Yon Alexander Burke; and two great-granddaughters, Vera Elisabeth Morbey and Katherine Elisabeth Dunn. The funeral service will be held at Branch’s Baptist Church on Broad Rock Road, Wednesday at 2 p.m. The family will receive friends during the two hours prior to the service. Interment will follow the service. She will rest alongside her husband in the cemetery of Branch’s Church. We are grateful to the Morrissett Funeral Home on Ironbridge Road for assisting the family in all the arrangements.