So sad. 
Thanks for the updates, Tamikosmom.

Funeral Saturday for Marietta couple killed in Telfair County
Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015

The funeral for the Marietta couple killed on a trip to South Georgia to buy a Ford Mustang advertised on Craigslist will be Saturday, Channel 2 Action News reported.

The service for Bud and June Runion will be at 1 p.m. at Mt. Paran North Church of God, Marietta, the news station reported Wednesday.

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A close friend and neighbor of the Marietta couple found shot to death called the Runions “the epitome” of the perfect neighbors.

I think we’re still in shock,” Tom Murphy said Wednesday. “Angry.”

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When Murphy’s family moved next door to the Runions in 2006, “they greeted us the first 24 hours we were here, and June had a pie with her, and they were always there for us,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, adding that the Runions “were the epitome of what you would like to have as a neighbor, somebody that’s warm and welcoming.”

Bud Runion “pretty much devoted his life to helping other people out,” Murphy said. “If I needed something, he was the first one there. Even if he was in the middle of something, he would drop what he was doing and come over and help.”

Murphy said Bud Runion had a charity called “Bud’s Bikes,” where he fixed up bikes or got new bikes and took them to kids who couldn’t afford them, sometimes delivering bikes to underprivileged children as far away as Kentucky and West Virginia.

A Vietnam veteran, Bud Runion flew an American flag from a pole in his front yard. Murphy said that after learning of the couple’s deaths, he and another neighbor came over and lowered the flag to half-mast.

“I thought it was appropriate,” he said.

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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/runions-were-the-epitome-of-perfect-neighbors/njyXp/

Mourners say a final goodbye to Runions
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015

Elrey “Bud” and June Runion were remembered Saturday by hundreds who gathered in the couple’s church home of 28 years as people of strong faith, whose charity and generosity “was an expression of Christ’s love.”

Mourners began filing into Mt. Paran North Church of God in Marietta at 11:15 a.m., nearly two hours before the service was to start.

Ushers brought in sprays of roses, carnations, lilies and mums while friends of the Runions hugged and consoled each other.

Pink and red flowers adorned a shiny bicycle at the edge of the pulpit. It was reference to Bud’s Bicycle ministry, a charity he’d run for years restoring old bikes and giving them to children whose parents couldn’t afford to buy them new ones.

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Just before the service began, video monitors across the front of the sanctuary flashed photos of the Runions through the years. In one, June held a grandchild. In another Bud mugged for the camera, a Christmas ribbon stuck to his forehead. Each image told the story of a couple and two generations of their family, one that appeared loving and happy.

In a video message to the congregation, Stephanie Bishop, Bud Runion’s oldest daughter and June’s stepdaughter, thanked parishioners for coming, telling them she wished she and two sisters could hug them all, but that talking to anyone but family now was “too hard.”

Among the mourners were members of an antique car club.

As the room filled, a choir rehearsed a song they would sing for the service.

“When He calls my name, I will rise. No more sorrow, no more pain. I will rise,” they sang.

During the service, Bud was remembered as someone who loved to sing hymns, and June as someone who could “actually sing.” She was a member of the church choir that sang every Sunday, with Bud sitting on a pew raising his voice along with her.

Pastor Mark Walker, who eulogized the couple, recalled how Bud had once told him that his preference in hymns ran toward the traditional, because those are the ones he sung when he served in Vietnam.

“They gave him the strength to survive,” Walker said.

One of their favorites was “Nothing But the Blood” of Jesus, which the congregation sang at the start of the service. In the first pews sat the Runions’ daughters, Stephanie, Virginia and Brittany, who were flanked by their husbands.

Walker alluded to the couple’s fate a in his remarks, saying that they were good people who lived “in a fallen world where death and evil are real.” But he admonished the mourners to take heart in what he believed would prove true, that “evil has not won the day. Justice will prevail.”

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“Time and the Lord will allow us to heal and they will also allow us to forgive,” Walker said. “Bud and June walk hand in hand with their Lord and maker right now.”


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/mourners-gather-to-say-a-final-goodbye-to-runions/nj2Wj/

Rest in Peace, Bud and June.    


Photos: Mourners bid farewell to Runion's at funeral

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/mourners-gather-to-say-a-final-goodbye-to-runions/nj2Wj/
Mourners say a final goodbye to Runions
2:56 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015