Mr. Nunn was owner/operator of Nunn Lumber Company, operating his own logging business for many years and also retired from Ellis Creek Coal Company as a formean. He was a veteran having served with the US Navy during WWII. he was preceded in death by his wife Mamie Opal Nunn on November 17, 1998, whom he married on August 21, 1941. He was also preceded in death by a son James Nunn, a daughter Gail Nunn, by two sisters, Martha and Ruby and by a brother Charles Nunn. He was the last surving member of his immediated family.