Christopher ‘Kit’ Gunn, Lake Charles, La.
Mass of Christian burial for Christopher “Kit” Gunn, 55, Lake Charles, La., formerly of Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. John the Evangelist Church. Inurnment will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Mr. Gunn died Thursday, March 17, 2005, in Houston.
He was born Sept. 15, 1949, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of James and Jane Gunn. He attended Hillcrest School and West Junior High School in Lawrence. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1967. He was a Summerfield and National Merit scholar during his years at LHS.
Mr. Gunn earned a journalism degree from Kansas University in 1978 after working several years as a reporter for the Salina Journal. After returning to Lawrence he worked for the remote sensing laboratory and the pharmaceutical chemistry department at KU. He earned a master’s degree in sociology and was awarded both the Centennial and George Robert Gross awards for outstanding graduate research in 1999. He also taught sociology at Palm Beach College, Fla., and McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La.
He married Diana Odom on Aug. 14, 1993. She survives, of the home.
Other survivors include his parents, of Lawrence, and a brother, Kevin, Lawrence.
A memorial reception will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Summerfield Room of the Adams Alumni Center on the Kansas University campus.
The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society, sent in care Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.