Alta's life encompassed parts of three centuries. She was the 6th of 12 children, all of whom she outlived. She was mother to four, grandmother to ten, great-grandmother to sixteen, and Aunt Alta or Cousin Alta to dozens of Johnsons and Hunts.

She moved with her family to Oklahoma in 1910, living briefly in Broken Arrow, and then growing up at 31st and Lewis Avenue in Tulsa, where her father was a farmer-stockman. She graduated from Tulsa (now Central) High School, attended Normal School in Tahlequah, and trained in Chicago to be a kindergarten teacher. She taught in the Jenks, OK Schools under Principal John Wesley Hunt, whom she married in December 1922. He later left teaching for the profession of law.

Her goal in life was to support her husband and actively raise her children. Her great joys, besides her family, were gardening, nature, and any outdoor activity. By her example, her children learned that a citizen with no particular claim to fame could yet contribute importantly to society by creating a cooperative atmosphere of wide horizons, in which the best ideas, efforts, and goals are taught and expected.

She steered her family through the Depression years with humor and good sense. She and her husband took a walk together almost every evening of their married lives, and she often read law journal articles aloud to him as well as history and poetry.

Alta and John Hunt lived in Ada, OK, then in Norman, so as to afford to send their children to university; and finally in Oklahoma City, where they were faithful and supportive members of St. Luke Methodist Church. Her husband died in 1964.

In her years alone, when her children were scattered from England to California, she was closely monitored by her large contingent of Tulsa relations, but especially by her niece, Harriet Hunt Burk, of Norman; her younger brother and sister-in-law, Dr. E.O. and Machiko Johnson of Tulsa; and by the four nieces, whose father was another younger brother, attorney Pat O. Johnson of Tulsa and Oklahoma City. As she aged, and became a very old person indeed, she maintained her sunny and funny nature, and greeted each day with thanksgiving. ....

--From The Oklahoman January 16, 2001