HUNT, Grant Burdette 1910-1998

HUNT, JOHANNI

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/15/2010 at 17:21:28

Grant Burdette Hunt

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA — Grant Burdette Hunt, 87, of 24134 277th St., Nora Springs, died Sunday afternoon, July 26, 1998, at the Nora Springs Care Center.

Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 31, 1998, at First Presbyterian Church, with Ann Kuhlman and the Rev. Donald Simmonds officiating. Dale Timmerman will give the eulogy for the family.

A gathering will be held after 5 p.m. Thursday at the Fullerton Patterson James Funeral Home, 123 Second St. S.E., Mason City.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to the Grant B. Hunt Memorial Fund.

Following his body donation to the University of Iowa, his cremated remains will be returned to Mason City for inurnment at a later date.

Grant was born on Sept. 5, 1910, in Pymouth, Iowa, the son of Ulysses Grant and Nora Catherine "Pennell" Hunt.

He graduated from Plymouth High School in 1929 and then attended Iowa State Teachers College.

He served as a 3rd Class Radarman in the Navy during World War II. Following his honorable discharge, he returned to North Iowa and was employed by James Refridgeration. He then worked for many local contractors as a carpenter.

Grant was united in marriage to Elizabeth Johanni on May 9, 1936, in Mason City, and to this union were born four children.

He helped found the Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank and the North Iowa Community Credit Union and served on their boards and as the business agent of the Carpenters Union No. 1313.

He was an elder and a deacon for First Presbyterian Church and was a great volunteer there as well as with RSVP and the Weatherization Program.

He enjoyed reading for his enjoyment and read to the elementary children at the Nora Springs-Rock Falls community school "Reading With Grandpa Program" and at the Nora Springs Care Center.

He also participated in the storytelling group in Clear Lake. Grant was known for his volunteerism and giving nature.

Grant will be sadly missed by his wife of 62 years, Elizabeth, of Nora Springs; his two daughters, Joan and her husband, Gary Harms, and Nancy and her husband, Dale Timmerman, all of Forest Lake, Minn.; his two sons, Roger Hunt and his wife, Dee, and Jim Hunt, all of Nora Springs. He also is survived by his eight grandchildren: Margaret "Peg" Morgan, Matthew Hunt, Debbie Meyerhoff, Jamie and Tim Rabe, Allison Russo, Sarah and Nathan Timmerman; five great grandchildren: Erin and Zach Morgan, Marc Meyerhoff, Chantice Hunt and Nicolo Russo.

He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Corwin Hunt, and one grandson, Joe.

Globe Gazette, July 29, 1998