Emily Hunter 1908 - 2005

HUNTER, SHORT

Posted By: Connie Swearingen -Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/16/2019 at 22:32:52

Sioux City Journal
16 October 2005

Mrs. Robert F. (Emily) Hunter, 97, of Sioux City died Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005, at Indian Hills Care Center.

Memorial services will be 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Mayflower Congregational Church, with the Rev. Dan Lozer officiating. Private family graveside services will be in Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mrs. Hunter, the former Emily Short, was born on June 9, 1908, in Kansas City, Mo. The Rev. Wallace Short family moved to Sioux City in 1910, where Emily attended public schools, graduating from Central High School in 1924. She attended Reed College in Portland, Ore., and graduated from Yankton College at Yankton, S.D., in 1928. After teaching one year in South Dakota, she returned to Sioux City to work with her father in his newspaper and printing business. She worked for the Des Moines Register as an opinion pollster and with the Census Bureau in 1960 and 1970.

She married Robert Hunter on Oct. 29, 1929. He was with the district engineering department of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. He died in January 1980.

Mrs. Hunter was a Girl Scout leader for many years, serving on the Girl Scout Board and as a trainer for leaders as well as camp counselor. She was a member of the Public Museum, serving on the board as membership chair. She served on the membership committee of public radio station KWIT and was a member of COHA.

She was a 50-year member of Mayflower Congregational Church, where she was active in many capacities, including president of the N.W. Association of Congregational Women and a member of the state board of that organization; church historian; life member of Siouxland Senior Center, where she was editor of the newsletter for several years and associate member of Telephone Pioneers.

Survivors include two daughters, Esther Harmison of Ames, Iowa, and Mary Hunter of Novato, Calif.; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a daughter, Margaret LaCroix; two brothers, Burton and John Short; and a grandson, Robert LaCroix.