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January 14, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 10-11 AM on Friday, January 17, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral services will follow the visitation.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
John "Jack" Hunter, age 91 of Silver Spring, MD, formerly of Wayne and Cedar Grove, passed peacefully on Tuesday, January 14, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and lived in Hawthorne, Wayne, Caldwell, and Cedar Grove before moving to Silver Spring, Maryland.
John was an auctioneer in the horse trading industry having worked for Roosevelt Sales Stable in Edison before retiring in 1997. John's father had owned J. Hunter Stable in Paterson which rented horses to the Dugan Bakery and Ottilio Construction.
He was a United States Navy veteran having served during WWII. He was awarded the American Theatre Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Medal with one star, the European Theatre Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.
After serving in the military John went to the Reisch Auction School in Mason City, Iowa and was an auctioneer in the horse trading industry in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for many years.
John was the loving husband of the late Charlotte (Bonter) Hunter (1965); loved brother of Alva Breithaupt of Wayne, Edward R. Hunter of Vineland, and William C. and his wife Choice Hunter of Lincoln Park; he was the much loved companion of twenty-seven years to the late Mary Abrams (2000) and her daughter Adele Abrams, Esq. and her husband James Anderson of Takoma Park, Md; he was cherished by several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., NY, NY 10065 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 10-11 AM on Friday, January 17, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral services will follow the visitation.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
January 14, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 10-11 AM on Friday, January 17, 2014 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne. A funeral services will follow the visitation.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
John "Jack" Hunter, age 91 of Silver Spring, MD, formerly of Wayne and Cedar Grove, passed peacefully on Tuesday, January 14, 2014.
He was born in Paterson and lived in Hawthorne, Wayne, Caldwell, and Cedar Grove before moving to Silver Spring, Maryland.
John was an auctioneer in the horse trading industry having worked for Roosevelt Sales Stable in Edison before retiring in 1997. John's father had owned J. Hunter Stable in Paterson which rented horses to the Dugan Bakery and Ottilio Construction.
He was a United States Navy veteran having served during WWII. He was awarded the American Theatre Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Medal with one star, the European Theatre Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.
After serving in the military John went to the Reisch Auction School in Mason City, Iowa and was an auctioneer in the horse trading industry in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for many years.
John was the loving husband of the late Charlotte (Bonter) Hunter (1965); loved brother of Alva Breithaupt of Wayne, Edward R. Hunter of Vineland, and William C. and his wife Choice Hunter of Lincoln Park; he was the much loved companion of twenty-seven years to the late Mary Abrams (2000) and her daughter Adele Abrams, Esq. and her husband James Anderson of Takoma Park, Md; he was cherished by several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Ave., NY, NY 10065 would be appreciated.
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