Charlotte Davis Gunn, 82, died peacefully at Kendal at Lexington on the 21st of October 2014, of metastatic cancer.

She was born at Anderson, Indiana, on the 24th of February 1932, the daughter of Mildred Dickinson Davis, of Prince Edward County, and Charles Hall Davis Jr., of Petersburg.

Upon the early death of her father, she and her mother moved back to Prince Edward County, where she was reared in Hampden-Sydney.

She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1952 with a degree in religion, and she was a serious student of theology for all her adult life.

She taught English in high school in Richmond for two years and then at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista for three years.

She is survived by her husband of 56 years, John M. Gunn, a retired Professor of Economics of Washington and Lee University; a son, David, his wife, Dr. Joan Carol Mecsas, and their daughter, Gwendolyn, all of Needham, Massachusetts.

She was predeceased by an older son, John Eldridge Moore Gunn.

Charlotte was a member and leader of the Lexington Presbyterian Church for 59 years. She served the church as Sunday School teacher, one of its first female Elders, Treasurer (1983-1992), Librarian (1996-2011), and columnist in the monthly newsletter (1996-present). She was an Honorary Life Member of the Presbyterian Women.

She was one of the four women who founded the Rockbridge Area Hospice, thirty years ago, and was a patient of Hospice at the time of her death. She was also one of the founders of the now defunct chapter of the League of Women Voters.

She served as Coordinator of the Meals-for-Shut-Ins program and as Executive Director of the Mental Health Association.

Charlotte published a novel, Ashes of Aerie. She is a brain donor.

A memorial service will be held in the Lexington Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m.on Saturday, November 1, 2014. Friends who wish to make memorial gifts are invited to consider the Rockbridge Area Hospice, 315 Myers Street, Lexington, Virginia 24450, The Community Table for the Rockbridge Area, 350 Spotswood Drive, Lexington, Virginia 24450, or a charity of their own choice.