Walter W. Hunter 1921-2002

HUNTER, HARRINGTON, HUEY

Posted By: Marguerite (email)
Date: 11/27/2002 at 12:18:16

Iowa City Press Citizen
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Waukegan News Sun in Illinois
Albuquerque Paper

NORTH LIBERTY

Walter W. Hunter, 81, of 820 Club House Road, North Liberty, died Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, November 11, 2002, at the Solon United Methodist Church, with the Reverends Scott Meador and Renee Lunemann, officiating. Burial will be in the Lisbon Cemetery. Friends may call from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. Sunday, at Lensing’s Oak Hill, 210 Holiday Road, Coralville. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Iowa City.

Walter W. Hunter was born April 16, 1921 in Lansing, Michigan, the son of Russell V. and Edith F. (Harrington) Hunter. He graduated from Rockford High School in Rockford, Illinois, and attended LaSalle Peru Junior College and later Blackburn College. He obtained his B.A. in 1947 from the University of Iowa along with his teaching certificate. He was united in marriage to Janice Huey on August 24, 1946, in Lisbon, Iowa. The couple made their home in Waukegan, Illinois. He was employed as a laboratory technician for Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago for over 32 years, retiring in 1983. The couple moved to the North Liberty area in 1993. He was a member of the Solon United Methodist Church. He had been a member of the United Methodist Church in Waukegan, Illinois, where he sang in the choir for over twenty-five years and participated in the bell choir for many years. He had previously done volunteer work at Victory Memorial Hospital. Walter had many interests in life: taking cruises, golf, traveling, music of all kinds. He liked to research history on the Civil War and enjoyed English history on Henry VIII, and Queen Elizabeth II. He loved the outdoors, enjoyed hiking and the Iowa countryside and especially enjoyed Hawkeye wrestling and football.

Walter is survived by his wife, Janice of North Liberty; two daughters; Kristin Kay Simon and her husband Steve of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Karen Lee Norvell of Henderson, Nevada; four grandchildren, Jeremy, Benjamin, Payton and Emily; his half-sister, Lucille Munro of York, Illinois; and his half sister-in-law, Ann Hunter of Pinewood, Michigan.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, Vern and his half-brother, Max.