HUNTER, Effie

HUNTER, RUCH, GREENE, BOQUETTE, HOSTETTER, STEPHENSON, RUPE, FISHER, GORN, HARLESS, EPPERSON, STOREY, HARRIS, RAYMOND

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 5/19/2006 at 00:07:34

Glenwood Opinion-Tribune
June 10, 1954

Funeral services were conducted at Pilgrim Holiness Church in Pacific Junction for Mrs. Effie Hunter, who died Friday, June 4 in Council Bluffs. Elder V. D. Ruch officiated.

Music was provided by the Latter Day Saints Church in Council Bluffs.

Usher was Alfred Greene. Flower Bearers were Mrs. H. L. Boquette and Mrs. Celia Hostetter.

Casket bearers were Raymond Stephenson, Gerald Rupe, John Fisher, James Rupe, Carl Gorn and Bernard Harless.

Burial was in Martin's Chapel Cemetery north of Pacific Junction.

Annie Effie, daughter of Charles and Ophelia Epperson, was born Sept. 7, 1870 on the Epperson farm two miles south of Pacific Junction. She received her early schooling in the Wright School and grew to womanhood in the same community.

On January 30, 1890, she was united in marriage to Andrew Jackson Hunter. Four children were born to this union. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter lived in the Pacific Junction community their entire married life. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in January 1940. Her husband preceded her in death on November 12, 1946.

Mrs. Hunter attended Pilgrim Holiness Church in Pacific Junction and later when she moved to Council Bluffs, attended the Latter Day Saints Church.

In November of 1953 her health began to fail rapidly due to a stroke. She died at Jennie Edmundson Hospital at the age of 83 years, eight months and 28 days. She had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Storey of Council Bluffs, since her husband's death.

Other survivors include another daughter, Mrs. Dennis Harris of Glenwood; and two sons, Charlie and Frank, both of Pacific Junction; and a niece, Mrs. Lindsay Raymond, whom she cared for from the time she was a small child until she married; 20 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren and other relatives.