Marie Hunter

Fern Marie Hunter was born January 14, 1914, the daughter of Martin and Myrtle Lomax Hunter. She passed away on Sunday, May 26, 2013, at the Little Flower Haven Nursing Home in Earling, Iowa, at the age of 99.
Marie received her education in the country schools in New Market, Iowa, graduating from New Market High School with the class of 1933. She received her teaching certificate from Northwest Missouri State Teachers College in Marysville, Missouri. Marie also completed a home study accounting course in 1961. She worked as an accountant at Higginsville State School in Higginsville, Missouri, from 1965 til retiring in 1986. Marie eloped with George Hunter on May 14. 1936. The couple was blessed with the birth of four daughters.
At the age of nine, she fortunately overcame scarlet fever, although it caused some heart damage and a loss of all her hair. The family farm home had to be quarantined. She worked hard to recover and learned to talk and walk all over again.
Marie was an outside person and loved gardening, canning jams, and candy making. Sewing was another favorite pastime as Marie made quilts, pulled-thread dishtowels, and stuffed animals. She also liked to crochet doilies and tablecloths. Marie loved her family and especially liked to attend her grandchildrens activities. She attended church near her home on a regular basis. She enjoyed traveling, taking vacations to Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Wyoming, and two trips to West Germany.
Marie was preceded in death by her parents; husband George in 1959; two daughters, Kathy Hunter in 2001, and Bernice Lauritsen in 2010; sons-in-law, Bernard Lauritsen; Norman Malone; and Ed Higgins; one great-grandchild in infancy; one brother, Curtis Oliver; and one sister, Zelma Akes. She is survived by two daughters: Martha Higgins of Dow City, Iowa; and Connie King and her husband, Herb of Newberg, Oregon; 10 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; 25 great-great grandchildren; and one sister, Hazel Wardlow of Peoria, Arizona; other relatives and friends.