Doris Ellen Hunt Dunn, age 72, a resident of Aurora, NC, died Monday, October 17, 2016 at Carolina East Medical Center.

Mrs. Dunn was born in Lenoir County on December 4, 1943 to the late Eunice Hunt Bland. She graduated from Pineland College in Salemburg, NC in 1964 with an Associates in Language Arts. Mrs. Dunn owned Enchanted Florist in Aurora. Mrs. Dunn was a member of Aurora Church of God and a resident of Beaufort County since 1980. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.

Survivors include two sons, Ron Edward Haines and wife Fran of Roanoke Rapids, Richard Franklin Smith IV and girlfriend Joyce Philbeck of Aurora, a grandson Christopher Haines, a sister Vera Lee Elliot of Easton, Maryland, Nephews Randall Dunn Jr. and a niece Jessica Dunn.

She is preceded in death by her husband George Linwood Dunn, her stepfather Beck Bland, a brother David Gainey, a sister Rena Carlyle and a nephew Robert Dunn.

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Paul Funeral Home & Crematory of Washington is honored to serve the Dunn family.