Wayne Earl Hunter 1894-1966

HUNTER, PALMER, ZAPH, MONTOUR

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/14/2011 at 21:57:31

Hunter Dies at Age 72
Wayne Earl Hunter, 72, of Estherville died sometime yesterday morning at his home at 527S. 14th St. Dr. L.W. Loving, Emmet County medical examiner, attributed death to a heart attack.

The body was found at 3:30 p.m. by Tony Berven, a friend who had come to visit.

He was born Feb. 13, 1894, on a farm near Ames, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Manford Hunter. He attended Ames schools and also took a dairy course at Iowa State University.

On Oct. 24, 1916, he was married to Cecile Palmer at Alden. Following his marriage he was employed as an ice cream maker at Iowa City, and in 1930 moved to Littleport, where he was a butter maker or 13 years.

Mr. and Mrs. Hunter moved to Estherville in 1943. He was employed as a butter maker at the Estherville Cooperative Creamery Association until 1959, when he retired.

Mrs. Hunter died April 3, 1962.

Mr. Hunter was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Elkader, and a member of the First Methodist Church of Estherville.

He is survived by one son, Kenneth, of Estherville; two daughters, Mrs. Lowell (Dorothy) Zaph of Littleport and Mrs. Gilbert (Charlotte) Montour of Hamilton Air Force Base, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.

Family services will be Monday at 11 a.m. at the Reese-Henry Funeral Home, followed by public services at 2 p.m., Rev. C.R. Buckwalter officiating. Burial will be in East Side Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 am. Sunday until 2 p.m. Monday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 3, 1966)