The story, A 40-year-old Midget in a Little Girl’s Suit, about Abby Walls Huff’s life and the funny things she said and did, was taken from things Nunn collected over the years.
While Nunn said that Abby was her funniest child to bring up, she also noted that her son, Denney Walls, a contractor with many talents in home construction and repairs, and his wife Candy, had been very good to her, especially after Nunn’s husband Kenneth died in 2007. Nunn’s daughter, Shelley Suter, and her husband Ed, moved in with Nunn to help take care of her after her husband’s death. Nunn called Shelley a very loving child who was nice to everyone and had many friends.
Bette Nunn is 79 years old and has continued to write for the Martinsville, Indiana, Reporter-Times newspaper for about 48 years, though she retired in 2003. She had much success as an author with a true-crime book, Burn, Judy, Burn, about the murderer trial and subsequent execution of Steven Judy. The book sold out its first printing in the ‘80s and is selling again as an ebook.
Recently she has written a novel, The Yo-Yo String, which has recently been published as an ebook. It is a love story about a young couple who split up because the husband found someone else, and the fallout from that split.
Nunn has also written two children’s books with the help of illustrator Jim Asher, If I Were President, and What Does a Devil Look Like.