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Otis Gasque Dunn Otis Gasque Dunn, 92, died December 25, 2005 in Garden City. He had been a resident of Garden Manor Assisted Living Center for three years. Born in the Savannah Bluff section of Horry County on September 16, 1913, Mr. Dunn was the second child of Sumpter Gasque and Sarah Oliver Dunn. A graduate of Conway High School, he began a multifaceted career that spanned newspaper distribution, grocery store management, sales, a ten-year period as Magistrate of the Conway/Bucks Township District of Horry County, farming, and real estate brokerage. He retired from a decade with J. C. Penney Company in 1980. In the 1950?s he developed his own successful business curing and selling ?Dunrite? country cured hams. Mr. Dunn was for many years a member of First United Methodist Church, Conway, in which he held a variety of leadership positions, including Lay Leader for both congregation and the Marion District. From 1969 to 1979 he resided in Gainesville, Georgia, where he was active in the leadership of St. Paul?s and Hickory Flat United Methodist Churches. After retiring and relocating to Murrells Inlet, he assumed various positions of leadership in Belin Memorial United Methodist Church. Over five decades he was frequently a delegate to the South Carolina Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, and occasionally a representative to jurisdictional conferences at Lake Junaluska, N. C. He was well known as a popular Sunday school teacher and song leader throughout most of his adult life. During World War II he served in the United States Navy on the USS Dauphin in the Pacific Theatre, and received an Honorable Discharge at the rank of Seaman 3rd Class. In 1933 he was married to Tiny Burroughs, who died in 2002. He is survived by three sons: Jim Dunn of Garden City; Frank G. Dunn of Washington, D. C.; and Perry R. Dunn of Orlando, Florida. He is survived also by seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. His sister, Edna Dunn Garren, preceded him in death in 2002, and his brother, Ovid Rochelle Dunn, in 1940. Funeral services will be held on Friday, December 30th at 11 o?clock AM in Belin Memorial United Methodist Church, Murrells Inlet, with The Rev. Dr. B. Mike Alexander, Jr. officiating. The burial will follow in Hillcrest Cemetery directed by Goldfinch Funeral Home, Beach Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Belin Memorial United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 528, Murrells Inlet, SC, 29576 or a charity of the donor?s choice. An online guestbook is available at www.goldfinchfuneralhome.com