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December 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 2-5 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Monday, December 8, 2014 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, followed by burial at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park Cemetery.
William C. Hunter, age 81 of Lincoln Park, died on Wednesday, December 3, 2014. He had lived in Pines Lake, Wayne, for forty four years before moving to Lincoln Park in 2003.
Bill was born and raised in Paterson, graduating from Paterson Vocational-Technical School where he learned to be a pipefitter. Right out of high school, he joined the Navy and served from 1952 to 1956. He was especially proud of his years aboard the USS Hawkins, a Gearing-class destroyer. Upon his discharge from the Navy, Bill joined Pipefitters Local Union 274. He enjoyed a lifelong career with the Union before retiring in 1995.
Bill was stationed in Newport, Rhode Island during his Navy service and at the wedding of a fellow shipmate he met Choice Getchell of Fall River, Massachusetts. They hit it off from the start and were married on November 30, 1957 at the Unitarian Church in Fall River. They enjoyed a honeymoon to Washington, DC before settling in Totowa. In 1959 they moved to Pines Lake in Wayne where they lived for more than forty four years. Bill took full advantage of all the community had to offer. He loved to go fishing and boating, was active in the lake patrol, and he was a Boy Scout leader for fourteen years. Ironically, after four years in the Navy and nearly half a century living in a lake community, Bill never learned how to swim. Nevertheless, he made sure all of his children learned to be excellent swimmers.
Bill and Choice had a happy marriage with a lot of fun memories. They took no less than seven bus trips around the U.S., about a dozen cruises including a remarkable cruise up the Amazon River during which they crossed the equator. They had also been to Aruba on many occasions and simply enjoyed being together. Choice will miss him dearly.
Bill is survived by his beloved wife Choice of Lincoln Park, by his three children; Sally Herman and her husband Ronald of Pompton Plains, Choice Soden and her husband Scott of Pequannock, and John Hunter and his wife Barbara of Lewistown, Montana, eight grandchildren; Amanda, Ashley, Steven, Billy, Nicolette, Hunter, Danny and Garrett; sister, Alva Breithaupt of Wayne and brother, Edward R. Hunter of Vineland. William was predeceased by his brother John Hunter, Jr in 2014.
For those wishing to make a donation in Bill’s memory, please consider his church; Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 2-5 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Monday, December 8, 2014 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, followed by burial at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park Cemetery.
December 3, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 2-5 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Monday, December 8, 2014 at the Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, followed by burial at the Laurel Grove Memorial Park Cemetery.
William C. Hunter, age 81 of Lincoln Park, died on Wednesday, December 3, 2014. He had lived in Pines Lake, Wayne, for forty four years before moving to Lincoln Park in 2003.
Bill was born and raised in Paterson, graduating from Paterson Vocational-Technical School where he learned to be a pipefitter. Right out of high school, he joined the Navy and served from 1952 to 1956. He was especially proud of his years aboard the USS Hawkins, a Gearing-class destroyer. Upon his discharge from the Navy, Bill joined Pipefitters Local Union 274. He enjoyed a lifelong career with the Union before retiring in 1995.
Bill was stationed in Newport, Rhode Island during his Navy service and at the wedding of a fellow shipmate he met Choice Getchell of Fall River, Massachusetts. They hit it off from the start and were married on November 30, 1957 at the Unitarian Church in Fall River. They enjoyed a honeymoon to Washington, DC before settling in Totowa. In 1959 they moved to Pines Lake in Wayne where they lived for more than forty four years. Bill took full advantage of all the community had to offer. He loved to go fishing and boating, was active in the lake patrol, and he was a Boy Scout leader for fourteen years. Ironically, after four years in the Navy and nearly half a century living in a lake community, Bill never learned how to swim. Nevertheless, he made sure all of his children learned to be excellent swimmers.
Bill and Choice had a happy marriage with a lot of fun memories. They took no less than seven bus trips around the U.S., about a dozen cruises including a remarkable cruise up the Amazon River during which they crossed the equator. They had also been to Aruba on many occasions and simply enjoyed being together. Choice will miss him dearly.
Bill is survived by his beloved wife Choice of Lincoln Park, by his three children; Sally Herman and her husband Ronald of Pompton Plains, Choice Soden and her husband Scott of Pequannock, and John Hunter and his wife Barbara of Lewistown, Montana, eight grandchildren; Amanda, Ashley, Steven, Billy, Nicolette, Hunter, Danny and Garrett; sister, Alva Breithaupt of Wayne and brother, Edward R. Hunter of Vineland. William was predeceased by his brother John Hunter, Jr in 2014.
For those wishing to make a donation in Bill’s memory, please consider his church; Preakness Reformed Church, 131 Church Lane, Wayne, NJ 07470.
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