Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 14, 1991 TAG: 9103140234
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER/ NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The family had been looking for Nunn, 36, since early 1990 when his regular telephone calls home suddenly stopped.
It was only this month that authorities were able to identify the body of a man found frozen to death last March in Ellensburg, Wash., as the missing Pulaski man.
Nunn had a physical disability that could cause occasional disorientation, which apparently led to his death from exposure near Washington's Cascade Mountains.
He had been buried, unidentified, in a cemetery there. Now, his body will be brought home for a funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Pulaski, with burial in Highland Memory Gardens in Dublin.
Nunn graduated from Pulaski County High School in 1972 and later earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Radford University.
He traveled a lot, said Maj. Max Campbell of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, who had been involved in the family's search. Campbell declined to provide any details about the case, saying that the family had gone through enough without more publicity.
Nunn's last telephone call home had come from Ellensburg, according to information on the family's phone bill. But inquiries to authorities there at that time produced no results.
A missing-persons report distributed through the Salvation Army led to the identification of the exposure victim in Ellensburg as being Nunn. Salvation Army units, like the one in Pulaski, send such reports from people in their localities to a center in Atlanta for national distribution.
The family will receive friends tonight, 7-9 p.m., at Stevens Funeral Home in Pulaski. Survivors include his parents, Claude and Bonnie Nunn of Pulaski, and two sisters, Cindi Nunn, Pulaski, and Karen Shumaker, Snowville.
by CNB