More detail on this person: Major Cecil Thomas
Gunter, age 72, of Jonesboro, GA and Soso, MS,
passed away on August 27, 2016.
Major Gunter USA Retired from the US Army as a
Master Army Aviator. He served two combat tours
in Vietnam as a gunship pilot.
He was preceded in death by his wife: Frances
"Marilyn" Page Gunter and son: Cecil Thomas
Gunter, Jr.
He is survived by daughter: Cecily Marilyn Gunter
of Mississippi; siblings: James "Jim" Gunter of
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Bob Gunter of Jacksonville,
FL, Bill Gunter of Bastrop, TX, and Cecilia Gunter
Bassett of Moss Point, MS; 2 grandchildren:
Marilyn "Page" Gunter and Weston Thomas Ware.
Funeral services will be held 11 AM Wednesday,
August 31, 2016, in the Chapel of Ford Stewart
Funeral Home. Burial will take place at Union Line
Methodist Church Cemetery in Soso, Mississippi at
2 PM CST on Thursday, September 1, 2016. The
family will receive friends from 5 PM to 7 PM on
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to Vietnam
Helicopter Pilots Association 2100 N. Hwy 360
Suite 907 Grand Prairie, TX 75050,
1-800-505-VHPA.
Publlished on Ford-Stewart Funeral Home website
8/20/2016.
Burial: Union Line Cemetery, Soso, Jones County,
Mississippi, USA
Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on
Aug. 31, 2016
Burial information: Union Line Cemetery, Soso, MS
This information was last updated 09/14/2016
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