Obituary of Jack Kyuang Ob Dunn

Jack Kyuang Ob Dunn was born May 12, 1913, in Kapaa, Kauai. The first generation Korean-American grew up on Oahu. He traveled throughout the Hawaiian Territories and played football at McKinley High, class of 1931. He attended University of Hawaii and graduated from Michigan State with his BS in horticulture. There, he met and married his wife of over 65 years, Helen Hibbard, with whom he had two sons, Jack and Albert. Dunn continued his education at several military intelligence schools for language including Yale, University of Virginia, and the Presidio at Monterey. He earned a combat infantry badge and a bronze star in China and Burma as an officer in WWII. He was the United Nations chief interpreter at the Panmunjom peace talks during the Korean War. After circling the world he left the US Army, working in California in produce, Hawaii in landscaping, Michigan in insurance (he served as a Lansing police and fire commissioner). He enjoyed gardening, was a skilled wood artisan, loved playing ukulele and serenading the family with Hawaiian songs. He is survived by his sons, Dr. Jack Dunn, Tucson neurosurgeon, Albert Dunn, retired; daughter-in-law, Rosemary and granddaughters, Erica and Allison. Dunn passed May 17, 2015, in Tucson, AZ at the age of 102. Arrangements by ADAIR FUNERAL HOMES, Dodge Chapel.