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OBITUARY SERVICES SCHEDULED TODAY FOR JOHN W.
GUNSTREAM
The Dallas Morning News-November 9, 1987
Author: The Dallas Morning News
Services for John W. Gunstream, a former Carrollton school district
superintendent and former deputy state superintendent of public instruction,
will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Cox Chapel at Highland Park United Methodist
Church.
Gunstream, 84, died Friday at Baylor University Medical Center after a lengthy
illness.
Gunstream received a bachelor's degree in education at Southern Methodist
University in 1931. He earned a master's degree at SMU and also attended Oxford
University in England and the University of Texas at Austin for postgraduate
study.
Gunstream was superintendent of schools in Carrollton from 1928 to 1936, after
working as a Carrollton high school principal. When he took the Carrollton
position, he was the youngest superintendent of a fully accredited school
system, a relative said.
In 1940, he was appointed the first director of the Texas School of the Air,
which broadcast 15-minute periods four days a week for 15 weeks.
Gunstream was deputy state superintendent of public instruction of District 11,
with headquarters in Dallas, from 1941 to 1945. The office of state
superintendent of public instruction was abolished in 1949.
He later owned and operated Audio/Video, a Dallas dealership that sold film
projectors and films to schools and churches. Gunstream sold his company in
1953, when he became vice president of the Great Southwest Life Insurance Co. He
worked there until 1969, when he retired to handle his own real estate
investments.
He had been a member of Highland Park United Methodist Church since 1946.
Gunstream is survived by his wife, Alice Gunstream of Dallas; two grandchildren;
and four nieces.
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