William Bernice Bunn Jr.

Funeral services and life celebration will be held at 1:00 PM on Friday, December 30th at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 300 St Mary’s Street, Raleigh. Burial will follow at Raleigh Memorial Park. The family will receive friends prior to the service at Brown-Wynne, from 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM.

A native of Zebulon, he married his beloved wife, Dr. Clara Ray Bunn, in 1949. He attended Wake Forest College before a career in institutional food, wholesale grocery and engineering design businesses.

He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend. The echo of his laughter, loud and warm, reverberates in the hearts of those who knew him, and will continue to speak to the love and passion which guided his life.

His wife, Dr. Clara Bunn, his son, Dr. William Bunn III, and his daughter in-law, Cherie Smith, surrounded him in his final days. He is also survived by his two granddaughters and their spouses, Ashley Bunn and Eric Binkley of Colorado, Jordan and Garick Taylor of Michigan, and his great grandchildren, Peyton, Arlo and Holston.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital.