HUNTER, David Leslie (1938 - 1998)

HUNTER, ROTHWELL, OVERTURF, COONS, CORTNER

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 11/20/2009 at 09:07:25

Mason City Globe Gazette

David Leslie Hunter

DOUGHERTY- David Leslie Hunter, 60, of 1117 Floyd Line St., died at home on Thursday (Oct. 29, 1998). Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Nora Springs-Rock Falls Gymnasium, Nora Springs. Interment will follow at Grant Center Cemetery, Fertile

Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason city.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may direct memorials to the David Hunter Memorial Fund.

David Leslie Hunter, the son of Leslie Charles and Marian Rothwell Hunter, was born Sept. 29, 1938, in Wadena, Minn.

He attended Fertile School and graduated in 1956. He attended Wartburg College and received his BA. Later he earned his Master's Degree at North Carolina A. and T. in Greensboro, N. C.

He accepted Christ as his Savior after discovering how short life is, when he found his 14 year-old brother who had been accidently electrocuted in August of 1967.

David was united in marriage to Saundra Overturf on June 1, 1968, in Nora Springs. He began his teaching career in Clarksville, Iowa in 1961. After three years there he taught at Lake Mills for a year. In 1965 he started teaching in Nora Springs, where he taught Chemistry and Physics for 32 years, retiring in 1997.

He especially enjoyed basketball and coached the varsity team in Nora Springs for four years. David loved basketball and kids. David loved Camp Meeting and served for 28 years as vice-president of the Iowa Holiness Association Camp.

He was a member and served on the board at the Rudd Wesleyan Church. His family enjoyed spending time together at camp meetings, church services, fishing in Canada and attending sporting events.

Those thankful for having his Christian Leadership within the family include his wife, Sandy; three sons, Brady and his wife, Leah, of Riceville; Nathan of Des Moines; and Travis of Dougherty; one daughter Cassie of Dougherty; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Diana and John Coons, of Kansas City; and Kathy and David Cortner, of Des Moines; and his father, Leslie of Marshalltown.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Marian; two brothers, Charles and Roger; and one sister, Mary Beth.