Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Hunter, Earl R. April 8, 1954
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Lowell Ledger - Thursday, April 15, 1954

R. Earl Hunter Passes Following Long Illness a Former Postmaster

R. Earl Hunter, 80, former Lowell businessman and postmaster from February, 
1915 to February 1923, passed away Thursday, April 8, at Butterworth hospital 
following an illness of about five years.

Funeral services were held at Roth Funeral Home Saturday morning at 10:30 and 
burial was made in Chapel Hills Memorial Gardens, Grand Rapids. The Rev. Norman 
G. Woon officiated.

Mr. Hunter was born in Keene township August 11, 1873, the only child of DeWitt 
and Jennie Hunter. He attended Cutler schools, Lowell High school and Ferris 
Institute in Big Rapids. He spent four years in Atlanta, Ga. traveling in the 
South for J. B. Lewis Boot & Shoe Co. and later settled in Lowell where he 
operated a coal and wood business for a number of years. 

In 1908 he was married to Ruby M. Moore of Listowl, Ont. who survives him, 
along with a daughter, Maxine, now Mrs. Paul Smith of Keene, and seven 
grandchildren. Another daughter, Mrs. Helen Ogg preceded him in death in 1948.

Mr. Hunter was a member of the Lowell Congregational church of for 56 years and 
had been an active deacon and member of the choir for many years. He was 
interested in all church activities and civic progress in the village and was 
the second oldest living member of his church.

Additional Comments:
Funeral: Saturday, 10 April 1954
Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens

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