May Alta Hunt 1892-1915

HUNT

Posted By: Bobbie Knudsen <bknuds@msn.com>
Date: 10/29/2009 at 20:42:25

The Sumner Gazette, Sumner, Iowa
Thursday, Jan. 21, 1915

Beloved Young Woman Reposes in Last Rest

Many people had been watching the brave fight for life being made by Miss Alta Hunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hunt, who passed into her eternal rest 10:30 Thursday, Jan. 14, 1915, at the home of her parents northwest of town. Miss Hunt had always appeared in good health, so when it became known in the fall that she was to undergo an operation for relief of internal disorders, one of which was appendicitis, her friends were surprised and shocked. Her illness began the latter part of October, and the first operation was followed by another. Naturally she was of a hopeful and cheerful disposition, and bouyed up by these characteristics and by loving care she was hopeful and patient to the end. Alta was a charming young woman, whose friends were limited only by her acquaintanceship, and she will be greatly missed in the neighborhood as well by parents and other kindred.

May Alta Hunt was born in Bremer County, Iowa, July 15, 1892, and she was therefore aged 22 years, 5 months and 29 days at the time of her death. The funeral was held last Saturday at Finnell chapel, and burial made in the Mentor cemetery. The obsequies were largely attended, although a downpour of rain was falling at the time. The officiating pastor was Rev. B.P.S. Busey, of the U.B. Church, and the choir was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Dyer, W.E. Davis and Mrs. P.A. Smith, Mrs. A.H. Moment at the organ. The deceased left to mourn her death, father and mother, four borthers and three sisters, and grandparents, as she was a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hunt of this city. During the past weeks many evidences of affection have been tendered by friends, and the neighbors did everything they could to be of help to the sick girl and to her parents, and the family have asked the Gazette to say for them that these kindnesses will ever be held in grateful remembrance.

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