Obit of Hunt, Chris - Cimarron County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 05 Oct 2008 Return to Cimarron County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cimarron/cimarron.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Willowbar Cemetery--Keyes OK Chris Hunt KEYES, Okla. - Chris Hunt, 87, died Wednesday, May 7, 1997, at Boise City.Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jason Kearney and Harold James officiating. Burial will be in Willowbar Cemetery by Cimarron Mortuary of Boise City. Mr. Hunt was born in Lemberg, Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended school in Canada until the eighth grade. In 1926, he moved to Harvey, Ill., where he worked for Buda Motor Co. until the 1930s. While working for Buda Motor Co., he was transferred to Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma Panhandle, to Kansas and Texas where he serviced Rock Island tractors, Woods Bros. Combines and oil field engines. In 1929, he was granted his naturalization papers. He married Grace Hammontree Harding in 1930 at Guymon. They moved back to Harvey where he worked at several jobs such as truck driving, plastering, running concrete and ranching. In 1933, he returned to work at the Buda Motor Co. to build diesel engines. In 1938, he moved to Chicago and worked for International Harvester Co. Truck Division. While working for I.H.C., he moved to Oklahoma in 1942 and purchased a half section of farm land at a state land sale. In 1944, he was transferred from Chicago to the I.H.C. branch in Amarillo, but instead of working for that company, he worked at the old Amarillo Air Base for Williams and Whittle Co. as a truck driver and plumbers helper. He moved back to Cimarron County and worked in a repair shop and farmed, later raising cattle and sheep. In 1952, when the oil and gas well drilling business got under way, he began hauling water to the drilling rigs and later applied for and obtained permits from Colorado, Oklahoma and the Texas panhandles and 49 counties in Kansas. From 1962 until 1983 he served on KMCA oil field fluid carriers division and from 1963 until 1983 served on AMCO field fluid carriers division, and served on the board of director of fluid carriers division. In 1963, the company was incorporated to Chris Hunt Water Hauling Contractors Inc. In 1967, he was elected as a council member of Keyes. In 1968 was appointed mayor of Keyes and held that office for 10 years, resigning 1978. Mr. Hunt was an honorary member of the Keyes Alumni, a lifetime member of the Keyes Odd Fellows and the Keyes Senior Citizens. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1970 and by a stepson, Donald Harding. Survivors include a son, Victor Hunt of Keyes; three grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to the Keyes Senior Citizens Center or a favorite charity c/o the mortuary. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Cimarron County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cimarron/cimarron.htm