Bertha Gunnel

MRS. BERTHA DICKINSON GUNNEL Mrs. Bertha Williams Dickinson Gunnel, 86, resident of Trotwood Avenue, died Friday, January 9, 2004 at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at Oakes & Nichols with Rev. Bob Adair and Rev. J. O. Martin officiating. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Tuesday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, 38105. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of Winston County, Alabama, she was the daughter of the late Ross Williams and Nisha Orton Williams. Mrs. Gunnel was a supervisor for Dixie Manufacturing Company for twenty years and later for Weather Tamer for eighteen years. She was a member of the Highland Park Baptist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Jody Dickinson of Columbia and Judy (James, Sr.) Medkiff of Memphis; a daughter-in-law, Mavis Dickinson Nims of Portland, Oregan; special friend, Dianne Vaughn of Columbia; six grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; her loving miniature Chihuahua, "Tipper." She was preceded in death by her husband, Theodore Dickinson, Sr. in 1971 and a son, Charles Douglas "Doug" Dickinson, Sr. in 1994. Pallbearers are James Medkiff, Jr., Jeremy Medkiff, Charles Douglas Dickinson, Jr., Pamela Medkiff, Lee Vaughn, Jr., Adam York, Gilbert Marlowe.