HUNT, Max Ray

The White Mountain Independent, Show Low, Arizona - 04/25/2003 (1916-2003) Max Ray Hunt, 86, died April 20, 2003 at home in Snowflake. Max was born in St. Joseph which is now Joseph City. He was raised at the Homestead Dairy near there. He graduated with honors from the Holbrook High School with the class of 1933. He then attended Brigham Young University for three years. In 1939, Max was called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany. He was there for only six months when WWII broke out and all the missionaries there were reassigned and he came back to the United States where he completed his mission in the East Central States. He then served in the U.S. Navy for four years. It was in San Diego that he met Louise Jackson from Provo, Utah. They were married Dec. 5, 1945, in the Salt Lake Temple. They lived all of their married life in Northeastern Arizona, and most of that time in Snowflake. He worked at the Paper Mill for 17 years, but he was a farmer for most of his life, and that is what he loved most of all. Max graduated from BYU in 1959 after he went back to complete his education. Max is survived by his wife, Louise Jackson Hunt of Snowflake; three daughters, Catherine (David) Ellis of Oracle, Diane (Lloyd) Kriter of Snowflake, and Laurel (Kevin) Pederson of Bountiful, Utah; one son, James (Candy) Hunt of Mesa; three brothers, Bruce (Zena) Hunt of Mesa, Rolf Hunt of Joseph City, and Kern (Susan) Hunt of Lincoln, California; one sister, Nona Kingsbury of Ojai, California; two sisters-in-law, Beula Stratton of Snowflake and Betty Hunt of Joseph City; 19 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 26 at the Snowflake Main Street Chapel of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with a viewing from 9:30-10:30 before the service. Interment will be in the R.V. "Mike" Ramsay Memorial Cemetery in Snowflake. Owens Mortuary of Snowflake handled the arrangements.