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© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Monday, March 26, 2007 Howard O'Quinn "Dynamite" Dunn November 15, 1921 ~ March 25, 2007 Graveside services for Howard O'Quinn "Dynamite" Dunn, 85, of Chickasha, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in the Fairlawn Cemetery. Dynamite was born November 15, 1921, in Bridgeport, Texas, the son of Doc P. and Nell Jeter Dunn. He died Sunday, March 25, 2007, in Chickasha. He came to the Ninnekah area as a youngster, but at one time, traveled by covered wagon to Floydale, Texas. After a year the family returned to Ninnekah. In his junior year in high school, the football coach from Chickasha asked him to move to Chickasha to play football, baseball, and basketball. He made All State his senior year and received a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma. After President Roosevelt declared war in 1941, he joined the Air Force the next day. While in the service he had his neck and back broken and even though he had a contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, he was not able to ever play ball again. However, before being injured he did play for the Air Force for a couple of years. After World War II he received his Masters Degree and became a coach. He retired as Superintendent of Schools in Texas and also from Peoples Bank in Tyler, Texas. He liked to travel and besides visiting most all of the U.S., he took seventeen cruises and visited Europe five times. He married Alicia Comby Campbell, in Washington D.C. in 1972. Dynamite had been a member of the Eagles, the Elks Lodge, Red Red Rose, the Lions Club, Rotary Club, Salvation Army, served on the Crime Stoppers Board, the first Lifetime member of the Chickasha Ambassadors, a member of the "o" Club at the Oklahoma University and honored at halftime during an O.U. game. He also served on the Red Cross Board both of Chickasha and Oklahoma City, Commander of the American Legion, the V.F.W. and the D.A.V. He was preceded in death by both parents; a brother and a sister who died at birth and one grandson. Dynamite is survived by his wife Alicia Comby Dunn of the home; two sons and daughters-in-law: Michael O. and Linda Dunn of Edmond and Patrick and Kathy Dunn of Yukon; two brothers and sisters-in-law: Don J. and Bea Dunn of Chickasha; Sam Dunn of Ninnekah; one sister, Maydelle Stuff of Hurst, Texas; four grandchildren; one great grandchild and many nieces and nephews. Services are under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home. |
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