TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Friends, family and political colleagues are remembering U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee as a dedicated family man and public servant.
Hundreds of people packed the sanctuary of Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo for Nunnelee’s funeral Monday.
The third-term Republican congressman died of an inoperable brain tumor Friday. He was 56.
Nunnelee was elected to Congress in a Republican wave in 2010.
He was unable to work in Washington for most of the last half of 2014 because of health problems. He had a stroke in June while surgeons were removing a cancerous tumor from his brain. Doctors found another tumor in January and said it was inoperable.
Nunnelee served 15 years in the Mississippi Senate before he was elected to Congress.