Nona Caroline Quinn Bunce

Funeral services for Nona Caroline Quinn Bunce, 83, were held Sunday, August 23, 2009, at the First United Methodist Church, Statesboro, with Dr. Don Adams, Dr. Charles Houston, Dr. Hugh Davis, and Rev. Jimmy Cason officiating. Burial was in the Middleground Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Statesboro. She died Thursday, August 20, at the Ogeechee Area Hospice Inpatient Facilty.

Mrs. Bunce was a native of Washington-Wilkes. She received a B.S. in Music Education from Georgia State College for Women, and a Masters of Music degree from Northwestern University. She was a gifted music education teacher and taught in the public schools of Monticello, Washington, and Statesboro. She taught piano and voice and was the choir director for the First Methodist Church, Statesboro. She was a lifelong member of the United Methodist Church. She served on the Statesboro Library Board, the Statesboro Symphony Guild, the Statesboro Historical Society, the Statesboro Service League, the PTA, the DAR, and the DAC.

Survivors include her husband, Isaac Newton Bunce, a native of Statesboro; a son, Augustine Arthur Bunce; a daughter, Caroline Sophia Bunce; and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, and great-great-nieces and nephews.

The family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Statesboro First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 2048, Statesboro 30459; the Ogeechee Area Hospice, P.O. Box 531, Statesboro 30459; or the charity of choice.

Hodges-Moore Funeral Home of Statesboro was in charge of the arrangements.
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