McKinley Bunch, age 68, a resident of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, passed away Sunday, June 14, 2015, at his home.

Mr. Bunch was born on August 3, 1946, in Petros, Tennessee. He continued to live in Petros and attended Coalfield High School with the class of 1965.

McKinley joined the U.S. Army in 1963, and did basic training in Fort Knox, Kentucky. From there, he went to Fort Benning, Georgia, for Airborne training, which lead him to 1st S.F.G.P. in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. While in Special Forces, he was deployed to Okinawa with 1st S.F.G.P., Korot, Thailand, Fort Dix, New Jersey, and served in Vietnam.

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