HUNTER, Charles (1893-1976)

HUNTER, DURKEE, BERRY, SHOOK, CHRISTIANSEN, DASHNER, DELASHMUTT, HARMON, STOUDER, VEST, SARGENT, WILCOX, EPPERSON, HOWARD, HITCHINSON, MCNELLEY, WELTY, STOREY, RAYMOND, SCHMITZ, HARRIS

Posted By: Elaine Harrington (email)
Date: 9/27/2006 at 16:58:03

Glenwood Opinion-Tribune
dated March 17, 1976:

Services were held Saturday afternoon, Mar. 13 for Charlie Hunter, 83, who died Mar. 10 at the Grape Community Hospital, Hamburg.

The Rev. George Durkee and the Rev. Hugh Berry conducted the services at Raynor, Lett and Kent Funeral Home. Interment was at Glenwood Cemetery.

Hunter had lived at the Good Samaritan Home, Tabor, for the past year. He entered the Hamburg Hospital approximately one week before death occurred.

Music at the funeral services was provided by Mrs. Marion Shook, Mrs. Alex Christiansen and Mrs. Francis Dashner organist.

Honorary bearers were Clair Dashner, Clay DeLashmutt, B. W. Harmon, Roy Harmon, Ross Stouder and Frank Vest.

Casket bearers were Francis Dashner, Duane Harmon, Merrill Sargent, Everett Stouder, Fay Stouder and Lee Wilcox.

Charlie Hunter was born Jan. 11, 1893 in Pacific Junction, the son of Andrew Jackson and Effie Epperson Hunter. He attended school at Pacific Junction and lived his entire life in southwestern Iowa.

He was united in marriage to Clara Howard and they made their home in Pacific Junction, with seven children being born to the family. Hunter worked for the Burlington Railroad for several years, later moving to a farm south of Pacific Junction.

In 1957 Hunter retired and, with his wife, moved to Sidney, where they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1964.

Surviving are his wife Clara; two sons, Earl of Palmdale, Calif. and Guy of Tuscon Ariz.; three daughters, Ruth Hitchinson of Sidney, Ia., Lorna McNelley of Reno, Neb., and Geneva Welty of Woodward, Oak.; 13 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Harry Storey, Council Bluffs; and a foster-sister, Mrs. Lindsey Raymond, Pacific Junction.

Preceding him in death were his parents, a daughter Opal Schmitz, his son Ralph Hunter, his brother Frank Hunter and his sister Florence Harris.