Vallie Dunn

Funeral services for Mrs. Vallie Dunn 100 of Baxter will be held Monday May 23 at 1 o"�clock in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Boiling Springs Cemetery. Rev. Tracey Gross will officiate. Mrs. Dunn died Saturday morning May 21, 2011 in Cookeville Regional Medical Center. She was born September 29, 1910 in Putnam County, Tennessee to late William Amon and Eliza Ashburn Hutchings. Mrs. Dunn was a former member of Old Zion Freewill Baptist Church and has been a long-time member of Boiling Springs Baptist Church. She spent her lifetime loving and deeply committed to the Lord. She was a homemaker and served as a cook with the former two-room Boiling Springs Elementary School. She was an avid gardener and cook and according to her family made the "World"�s Best"� Chicken and Dumplings. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, James Willie Dunn; four sons, Willie Delbert Dunn, Jimmie Lee Dunn, Bobby Ray Dunn, and Elbert Dunn; a daughter-in-law, Madeline Dunn; two grandchildren, Stanley Eugene Dunn, and Brenda Colleen Dunn; and two great-grandchildren, Willie Craig Daniels and Michael Lynn Daniels; two brothers, Arthur Hutchings and Oscar Hutchings; and three sisters, Bertha Barr, Ethel Dobbs, and Odell Hedgecough. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Clayburn & Judy Dunn of Sparta; three daughters and sons-in-law, Mildred & Albert Dunn of Chattanooga, Nella Dean & Jerry Hutchison of Baxter and Helen & Jimmy Holloway of Monterey; two daughters-in-law, Brenda Dunn and Wanda Catherine Dunn of Baxter; 16 grandchildren, Tammy (Jeremy) Szilveszter, Randy (Anita) Dunn, Shane Dunn, Debbie Maxwell, Wanda Livers, Rhonda Chaffin, Shelly (Scott) Christian, Lawuanna Holloway, Kara (Josh) Phillips, Eleisha (Mark) Burton, Sherri (Johnny) Judd, DeAnn (Johnny) Thomas, Rick Dunn, Pam (Terry) Maxwell, Tim (Lisa) Dunn, and Mike Dunn; 24 great-grandchildren, and 12 great-great grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Memorial contributions may be made to the Vallie Dunn Memorial Fund at Boiling Springs Baptist Church %James Rice 8101 Cookeville Boat Dock Road Baxter, TN 38544 Mrs. Dunn"�s family will receive friends Sunday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Monday from 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.