Alma M. Hunt, Arizona pioneer, dies at Taylor
TAYLOR - Services for Alma Moroni Hunt Jr., 88, who died Tuesday at his home, will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Taylor Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will be in the Taylor Cemetery.
Born in Snowflake and a lifelong Arizona resident, Mr. Hunt left Snowflake in 1881 and traveled through Sunset Pass over the Mogollon Rim to Pine Creek where his family and three others settled and named the town of Pine.
He attended school in Pine in a one-room log schoolhouse and as a youth worked for $1 a day and board until he saved enough for a small herd of cattle, family members said. Then he started a herd of goats, which he brought to Snowflake and sold to be able to attend the Snowflake Academy.
Mr. Hunt was married in the Salt Lake City Temple of the LDS church in June 1906 and moved to a squatter's rights section on Silver Creek between Shumway and Taylor. He was responsible for getting 196 carloads of rock to repair Daggs Reservoir which is now known as White Mountain Lake, the family said.
Mr. Hunt was superintendent superintendent of the irrigation district for seven years, served on the Taylor School Board and was a member of the Navajo County Cattlemen's Association. As a high priest in the LDS Church, he served an Indian mission for seven years
and in other capacities in the church.
Survivors include four sons, Alma LaVern of San Bernadino, Calif., Joseph Isaac of Winslow, H. Ralph of Taylor and Chester Elwood of Alamogordo, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Singleton of Winslow and Mrs. Laura Saline of Taylor; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Blanch Meier of Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Diana Childers of Snohomish, Wash., and two brothers, Isaac of Pine and William Ammon of Clay Springs.
Also surviving are five sisters, Mrs. May Fuller of Mesa, Mrs. Philena Miller, Mrs. Millie Stratton and Mrs. Pearl Willis, all of Snowflake, and Mrs. Ann Turley of Woodruff; 36 grandchildren and 70 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at his home here all day today and at the Relief Society room of the church here from noon until service time tomorrow. Alcorn Mortuary in Holbrook handled arrangements.
Arizona Republic, Thurs., Dec. 11, 1969, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
TAYLOR - Services for Alma Moroni Hunt Jr., 88, who died Tuesday at his home, will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Taylor Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will be in the Taylor Cemetery.
Born in Snowflake and a lifelong Arizona resident, Mr. Hunt left Snowflake in 1881 and traveled through Sunset Pass over the Mogollon Rim to Pine Creek where his family and three others settled and named the town of Pine.
He attended school in Pine in a one-room log schoolhouse and as a youth worked for $1 a day and board until he saved enough for a small herd of cattle, family members said. Then he started a herd of goats, which he brought to Snowflake and sold to be able to attend the Snowflake Academy.
Mr. Hunt was married in the Salt Lake City Temple of the LDS church in June 1906 and moved to a squatter's rights section on Silver Creek between Shumway and Taylor. He was responsible for getting 196 carloads of rock to repair Daggs Reservoir which is now known as White Mountain Lake, the family said.
Mr. Hunt was superintendent superintendent of the irrigation district for seven years, served on the Taylor School Board and was a member of the Navajo County Cattlemen's Association. As a high priest in the LDS Church, he served an Indian mission for seven years
and in other capacities in the church.
Survivors include four sons, Alma LaVern of San Bernadino, Calif., Joseph Isaac of Winslow, H. Ralph of Taylor and Chester Elwood of Alamogordo, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Singleton of Winslow and Mrs. Laura Saline of Taylor; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Blanch Meier of Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Diana Childers of Snohomish, Wash., and two brothers, Isaac of Pine and William Ammon of Clay Springs.
Also surviving are five sisters, Mrs. May Fuller of Mesa, Mrs. Philena Miller, Mrs. Millie Stratton and Mrs. Pearl Willis, all of Snowflake, and Mrs. Ann Turley of Woodruff; 36 grandchildren and 70 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at his home here all day today and at the Relief Society room of the church here from noon until service time tomorrow. Alcorn Mortuary in Holbrook handled arrangements.
Arizona Republic, Thurs., Dec. 11, 1969, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
Alma M. Hunt, Arizona pioneer, dies at Taylor
TAYLOR - Services for Alma Moroni Hunt Jr., 88, who died Tuesday at his home, will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Taylor Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will be in the Taylor Cemetery.
Born in Snowflake and a lifelong Arizona resident, Mr. Hunt left Snowflake in 1881 and traveled through Sunset Pass over the Mogollon Rim to Pine Creek where his family and three others settled and named the town of Pine.
He attended school in Pine in a one-room log schoolhouse and as a youth worked for $1 a day and board until he saved enough for a small herd of cattle, family members said. Then he started a herd of goats, which he brought to Snowflake and sold to be able to attend the Snowflake Academy.
Mr. Hunt was married in the Salt Lake City Temple of the LDS church in June 1906 and moved to a squatter's rights section on Silver Creek between Shumway and Taylor. He was responsible for getting 196 carloads of rock to repair Daggs Reservoir which is now known as White Mountain Lake, the family said.
Mr. Hunt was superintendent superintendent of the irrigation district for seven years, served on the Taylor School Board and was a member of the Navajo County Cattlemen's Association. As a high priest in the LDS Church, he served an Indian mission for seven years
and in other capacities in the church.
Survivors include four sons, Alma LaVern of San Bernadino, Calif., Joseph Isaac of Winslow, H. Ralph of Taylor and Chester Elwood of Alamogordo, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Singleton of Winslow and Mrs. Laura Saline of Taylor; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Blanch Meier of Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Diana Childers of Snohomish, Wash., and two brothers, Isaac of Pine and William Ammon of Clay Springs.
Also surviving are five sisters, Mrs. May Fuller of Mesa, Mrs. Philena Miller, Mrs. Millie Stratton and Mrs. Pearl Willis, all of Snowflake, and Mrs. Ann Turley of Woodruff; 36 grandchildren and 70 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at his home here all day today and at the Relief Society room of the church here from noon until service time tomorrow. Alcorn Mortuary in Holbrook handled arrangements.
Arizona Republic, Thurs., Dec. 11, 1969, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
TAYLOR - Services for Alma Moroni Hunt Jr., 88, who died Tuesday at his home, will be at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Taylor Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Burial will be in the Taylor Cemetery.
Born in Snowflake and a lifelong Arizona resident, Mr. Hunt left Snowflake in 1881 and traveled through Sunset Pass over the Mogollon Rim to Pine Creek where his family and three others settled and named the town of Pine.
He attended school in Pine in a one-room log schoolhouse and as a youth worked for $1 a day and board until he saved enough for a small herd of cattle, family members said. Then he started a herd of goats, which he brought to Snowflake and sold to be able to attend the Snowflake Academy.
Mr. Hunt was married in the Salt Lake City Temple of the LDS church in June 1906 and moved to a squatter's rights section on Silver Creek between Shumway and Taylor. He was responsible for getting 196 carloads of rock to repair Daggs Reservoir which is now known as White Mountain Lake, the family said.
Mr. Hunt was superintendent superintendent of the irrigation district for seven years, served on the Taylor School Board and was a member of the Navajo County Cattlemen's Association. As a high priest in the LDS Church, he served an Indian mission for seven years
and in other capacities in the church.
Survivors include four sons, Alma LaVern of San Bernadino, Calif., Joseph Isaac of Winslow, H. Ralph of Taylor and Chester Elwood of Alamogordo, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Singleton of Winslow and Mrs. Laura Saline of Taylor; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Blanch Meier of Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Diana Childers of Snohomish, Wash., and two brothers, Isaac of Pine and William Ammon of Clay Springs.
Also surviving are five sisters, Mrs. May Fuller of Mesa, Mrs. Philena Miller, Mrs. Millie Stratton and Mrs. Pearl Willis, all of Snowflake, and Mrs. Ann Turley of Woodruff; 36 grandchildren and 70 great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at his home here all day today and at the Relief Society room of the church here from noon until service time tomorrow. Alcorn Mortuary in Holbrook handled arrangements.
Arizona Republic, Thurs., Dec. 11, 1969, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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