James Hulet

HULET

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/10/2014 at 16:45:49

Obituaries

James Hulet

Services for James “Percy” Hulet, 87, of 219 Wisconsin St., LeClaire, will be 2 p.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church, LeClaire. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery .

Visitation is 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at McGinnis Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the LeClaire Volunteer Fire Department, or First Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member.

Mr. Hulet died Thursday at his home.

He retired in 1956 from Rock Island Arsenal. He also was a former postmaster for LeClaire.

Mr. Hulet married Inez Cope in 1931 in Davenport.

He was an Army veteran of World War I.

He was a member of Snow Lodge 44, Silver Creek Order of Eastern Star; a charter member of the Buffalo Bill Museum Board and LeClaire Cemetery Association, and former director of both; a member of Davenport Consistory; Kaaba Shrine, Davenport; and World War I Barracks.

He was a charter member of the volunteer fire department and served 10 years as chief. Mr. Hulet was remembered as the person who drove the town’s first motorized fire truck off the flatbed railroad car when it was shipped in 1924.

He also had been a member of the first organized basketball team at LeClaire High School .

In 1978 he was honored by the LeClaire Business Men’s Association for 68 years of community service.

Survivors include his wife, nieces and nephews.

Source: The Quad City Times, Davenport, Ia., 13 Nov 1982, p. 4.