Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at J.L. Reed Funeral Home for Edwin Alexander Dunn, Sr., Tampa automobile industry and hotel executive who died Sunday night at his home.
     Mr. Dunn, who had been in ill health for several years, was a partner in the Crescent Apts., a hotel owned jointly by him and members of his immediate family.
     He also was secretary-treasurer of the General Auto Supply Co., and a director of the General Welding Supply Co., other family business interests.  He previously had been secretary-treasurer of Joe B. Johnson, Inc., the Buick agency now owned by Giles Motor Co.
     Mr. Dunn was born in Boligee, AL and moved with his parents, the late James Alonzo Dunn and Elizabeth Ann McKeown, to Homeland, FL, when he was 12 years old.  He would have been 79 in October, and had been a resident of Florida for 66 years.
     Death came at his residence, 609 South Brevard Ave., where he had lived with his wife, the former Jannie Johnson, since their wedding day 46 years ago and where, especially during his latter years, he welcomed friends and business associates to visit in his garden.
     Carollers from Hyde Park Methodist Church traditionally serenaded Mr. Dunn at his home on Christmas Eve, and as long as his health permitted, were entertained by him at a party which concluded their carolling season.
     He was prominent throughout his adult life in the congregation of Hyde Park Methodist Church, and in honor of his long service as an usher there, recently was made Head Usher Emeritus by vote of the quarterly conference of the church.  He also was an honorary member of the board of stewards and of the board of trustees of the church, both of which he had served actively for two generations.
     Mr. Dunn was a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the John Darling Masonic Lodge and the Egypt Temple of the Shrine.  He was a former member of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla.
     In addition to his widow, he is survived by his two children, Edwin Alexander Dunn Jr., and Mrs. H. Grady Lester, Jr.: five grandchildren, Anne and Grady Lester, Mary, Jannie and Billie Dunn, and a niece, Mrs. Lynwood Parker, all of Tampa.
     The family has requested that flowers be omitted at the funeral this afternoon, which will be conducted by the Rev. Laurie G. Ray, assisted by the Rev. R. J. Parker.  Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.