SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -
Funeral services are pending for Milton R. Hunter, member of the First Council of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who died Wednesday night.
Doctors at LDS Hospital said the 72-year-old church leader died at 7:45 p.m. of congestive heart failure and renal failure. He had suffered a serious heart attack last summer.
The former educator and author was named to the seven member council April 6, 1945 after a distinguished teaching career in several Western states and at Utah State University. The council is one of the presiding bodies of the Mormon Church,
He wrote 23 books, principally on religious and historical subjects and his "Utah In Her Western Setting" was used as a text book in Utah public schools for 17 years. He revised that volume' under the title, "The Utah Story" which is still used in junior high schools throughout the state.
After extensive travel and study in Mexico, Elder Hunter published several volumes of archeological works. Elder Hunter graduated from Brigham Young University, where he also earned a master's degree in 1931. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1935 from from the University of California.
He began his educational career as principal of a district school in St. Thomas, Nev. He later served as principal of junior high schools in Leamington and Lake View, Utah. After teaching at the LDS seminary in Provo from 1934 to 1936, he became an instructor at the LDS Institute of Religion in Logan and was serving in that capacity - when called to become a General Authority in 1945.
Elder Hunter was a former national president of Delta Phi, the LDS missionary fraternity and was a co-founder of the New World Archeology Foundation.
He married Ferne Gardner of Lehi, July 30, 1931 in the Logan LDS Temple. She survives him. Also surviving are two sons and four daughters; Milton R. Jr.. Berkeley. Calif., Mrs. Patrick (Lois Anne) McGill, Logan; Mrs. G. Vance (Margaret) Gritton. Orange. Calif., Mrs. Charles P. (Linda) Adams, Salt Lake City; Mrs. A. Charles (Alison) Korit?. Salt Lake City and Michael H, Salt Lake City. Four brothers and two sisters and ten grandchildren also survives.
-Provo Daily Herald, June 26, 1975, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -
Funeral services are pending for Milton R. Hunter, member of the First Council of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who died Wednesday night.
Doctors at LDS Hospital said the 72-year-old church leader died at 7:45 p.m. of congestive heart failure and renal failure. He had suffered a serious heart attack last summer.
The former educator and author was named to the seven member council April 6, 1945 after a distinguished teaching career in several Western states and at Utah State University. The council is one of the presiding bodies of the Mormon Church,
He wrote 23 books, principally on religious and historical subjects and his "Utah In Her Western Setting" was used as a text book in Utah public schools for 17 years. He revised that volume' under the title, "The Utah Story" which is still used in junior high schools throughout the state.
After extensive travel and study in Mexico, Elder Hunter published several volumes of archeological works. Elder Hunter graduated from Brigham Young University, where he also earned a master's degree in 1931. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1935 from from the University of California.
He began his educational career as principal of a district school in St. Thomas, Nev. He later served as principal of junior high schools in Leamington and Lake View, Utah. After teaching at the LDS seminary in Provo from 1934 to 1936, he became an instructor at the LDS Institute of Religion in Logan and was serving in that capacity - when called to become a General Authority in 1945.
Elder Hunter was a former national president of Delta Phi, the LDS missionary fraternity and was a co-founder of the New World Archeology Foundation.
He married Ferne Gardner of Lehi, July 30, 1931 in the Logan LDS Temple. She survives him. Also surviving are two sons and four daughters; Milton R. Jr.. Berkeley. Calif., Mrs. Patrick (Lois Anne) McGill, Logan; Mrs. G. Vance (Margaret) Gritton. Orange. Calif., Mrs. Charles P. (Linda) Adams, Salt Lake City; Mrs. A. Charles (Alison) Korit?. Salt Lake City and Michael H, Salt Lake City. Four brothers and two sisters and ten grandchildren also survives.
-Provo Daily Herald, June 26, 1975, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Camilla Hunter Coons
1887–1925
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Nettie Elizabeth Hunter McKee
1889–1947
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John Ambrose Hunter
1891–1980
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Velma Nicholaus Hunter Stevens
1893–1930
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Sidney Orzle Hunter
1896–1991
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Elza Hunter Nixon
1898–1979
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Otto Teeples Hunter
1900–1996
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Henry Hunter
1904–1904
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Vaughn B Hunter
1905–1993
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Euphamia Ellison Hunter Terry
1909–2000
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