Flodell Kerzee Gunn

Flodell Kerzee Gunn, affectionately known as “Doodle”, passed away at her home on Friday, December 27, 2024 at the age of 103. 

Flodell was born October 18, 1921 to Will and Lucy Kate Kerzee in Point Enterprise on the family farm which is now Lightsey Farms on FM1365. She attended Point Enterprise school and Mexia High School.

She married Ruben Gunn on June 9, 1942. They had enjoyed 51 years of marriage at the time of Ruben’s death in1993.

Although Ruben was in the service during the war years, Flodell went with him. After the war, they settled in Dallas, TX. Ruben worked at Love Field as an aircraft mechanic while Flodell worked for Larches Manufacturing as a designer-seamstress. After Ruben’s death, Flodell moved back to Mexia to be closer to her siblings. She joined the quilters in Point Enterprise and the Good Will Club where she served as secretary for almost 20 years. She quilted until her eyesight would no longer allow her to continue. During these years, she and her sister, Carlene, enjoyed taking bus trips all over the states in addition to flying to Canada and Nova Scotia.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ruben Gunn; her parents; and eight siblings, Lloyd Kerzee, Lorena Kerzee, Elliott Kerzee Lyons, Willie D. Kerzee Holt, Emily Carlene Kerzee Holt, Wayne W. Kerzee, David E. (Billy) Kerzee, and Virginia Nell Kerzee Buttery.

She is survived by many nieces and nephews, great & great-great nieces and nephews. Also, her nieces, Carol Holt Keys and Betty Jean Holt McGaughey who have been her “children” and have taken care of her for the last years of her life.

Flodell’s family would like to express their sincere thanks to her wonderful caregivers, Joyce Bolden, Johnnie Murphy and Florence Nealy.

Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m., Monday, December 30, 2024 at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home with Reverend Michael Kerzee officiating. Visitation with the family will be prior to the service at 1:00 p.m. Interment will follow in the Point Enterprise Cemetery. Warren Holt, Neil Holt, Mark Kerzee, Walt Harrison, Vince Keys, and Leslie Wayne Campbell will serve as pallbearers.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Point Enterprise Cemetery Association, 300 FCR 976, Mexia, TX 76667.