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Ethel Hunt
Posted 4/17/08
Ethel 'Jean' Hunt, 75 MILFORD - Ethel "Jean" Hunt, of Milford, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, as an inpatient of the beautiful new Delaware Hospice Center in Milford. She was 75. Mrs. …
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Ethel Hunt
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Ethel 'Jean' Hunt, 75
MILFORD - Ethel "Jean" Hunt, of Milford, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, as an inpatient of the beautiful new Delaware Hospice Center in Milford. She was 75.
Mrs. Hunt was born on July 27, 1932, in Genoa, N.Y., daughter of the late Howard A. and Cecile Barnes Bernhardt.
She was the eldest of seven siblings, her parents having lost their firstborn, Howard Jr., shortly after his birth.
Mrs. Hunt and her remaining brothers and sisters were all raised in the Ithaca-Groton, N.Y., area, Jean having graduated from Groton High School in 1951, where she excelled in advanced cooking classes, for which she was very proud.
Before marrying, she happily supported herself in a variety of occupations: as a nurse's aide, a waitress, a household domestic and in a sewing outlet facility.
Upon marrying Malcolm C. Hunt in 1954, Mrs. Hunt then concentrated on being an old-fashioned "hands on" homemaker, raising and caring for their four children.
She put her excellent homemaking skills to good use and became the envy of the neighborhood ladies, even giving them bread making classes each week.
Mrs. Hunt also grew the family's own vegetables and canned them and kept a large variety of flowers and indoor plants growing beautifully.
Her other interests centered around spiritual matters, having always shared her faith in Jehovah God's promises for a peaceful paradisiacal earth, since her baptism 34 years ago as one of Jehovah's faithful Witnesses.
She and her family were always known for opening their home up to family and friends, sharing quality time with them, whether it was their Sunday dinners, fishing/crabbing picnics or just a friendly game of rummy, Yahtzee, Scrabble or doing a jigsaw puzzle.
Mrs. Hunt was also an avid reader, keeping the Milford librarians busy finding new books for her these last 10-plus years she had been homebound.
She and her family had lived originally in the Cambridge-Bennington, N.Y., area, but moved down to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware area in 1977.
Soon after the death of her husband in 1992, she moved to Milford to live with her son, Brad, and his wife, where she had been very happily part of their family.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Malcolm C. Hunt; and two brothers, Howard A. Bernhardt Jr. and Harold A. Bernhardt.
She is survived by three sons, Brad Hunt of Milford, Thomas Hunt of Cambridge, N.Y., and Howard Hunt of Delmar; a daughter, Vickie LeBarron of Cambridge, ; two brothers, Charles O. "Bucky" Bernhardt of Groton, and William D. Bernhardt of Connellsville, Pa.; three sisters, Gladys M. "Dedee" Miller of Groton, Janet M. "Linda" Carvalho of South Lansing, N.Y., and Carole N. "Kitty" Bostick of Hebron, Md.; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Hunt wish to thank the staff at the Delaware Hospice Center as well as Perry Rogers and his staff at Rogers Funeral Home for their kind and helpful professional services.
They also express their sincere gratitude and special thanks for all the thoughtful, loving help given them from their congregation, friends and extended family members and also to home health aides of Christiana Care, who have been like "adopted" daughters to Jean daily for the past eight years, as well as to the friendly Christiana Care staff, RNs, Division of Aging representatives, Milford Senior Center's Meals-on-Wheels volunteers, "the Schwan guy" and the librarians at the Milford Public Library.
It truly does "take a village"! Thank you so very much all of you! We know that everyone who took the time to get to know Jean loved her very much and will miss her special knack for making people smile.
A memorial service talk will be given by close family friend and spiritual "brother," Frank Silva at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Milford Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 509 Airport Road, Milford.
Burial will be private.
Instead of flowers, the family has suggested memorial contributions to Jehovah's Witnesses, c/o Milford Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 509 Airport Road, Milford, DE 19963.
Arrangements handled by Rogers Funeral Home, Milford.
MILFORD - Ethel "Jean" Hunt, of Milford, died peacefully on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, as an inpatient of the beautiful new Delaware Hospice Center in Milford. She was 75.
Mrs. Hunt was born on July 27, 1932, in Genoa, N.Y., daughter of the late Howard A. and Cecile Barnes Bernhardt.
She was the eldest of seven siblings, her parents having lost their firstborn, Howard Jr., shortly after his birth.
Mrs. Hunt and her remaining brothers and sisters were all raised in the Ithaca-Groton, N.Y., area, Jean having graduated from Groton High School in 1951, where she excelled in advanced cooking classes, for which she was very proud.
Before marrying, she happily supported herself in a variety of occupations: as a nurse's aide, a waitress, a household domestic and in a sewing outlet facility.
Upon marrying Malcolm C. Hunt in 1954, Mrs. Hunt then concentrated on being an old-fashioned "hands on" homemaker, raising and caring for their four children.
She put her excellent homemaking skills to good use and became the envy of the neighborhood ladies, even giving them bread making classes each week.
Mrs. Hunt also grew the family's own vegetables and canned them and kept a large variety of flowers and indoor plants growing beautifully.
Her other interests centered around spiritual matters, having always shared her faith in Jehovah God's promises for a peaceful paradisiacal earth, since her baptism 34 years ago as one of Jehovah's faithful Witnesses.
She and her family were always known for opening their home up to family and friends, sharing quality time with them, whether it was their Sunday dinners, fishing/crabbing picnics or just a friendly game of rummy, Yahtzee, Scrabble or doing a jigsaw puzzle.
Mrs. Hunt was also an avid reader, keeping the Milford librarians busy finding new books for her these last 10-plus years she had been homebound.
She and her family had lived originally in the Cambridge-Bennington, N.Y., area, but moved down to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware area in 1977.
Soon after the death of her husband in 1992, she moved to Milford to live with her son, Brad, and his wife, where she had been very happily part of their family.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Malcolm C. Hunt; and two brothers, Howard A. Bernhardt Jr. and Harold A. Bernhardt.
She is survived by three sons, Brad Hunt of Milford, Thomas Hunt of Cambridge, N.Y., and Howard Hunt of Delmar; a daughter, Vickie LeBarron of Cambridge, ; two brothers, Charles O. "Bucky" Bernhardt of Groton, and William D. Bernhardt of Connellsville, Pa.; three sisters, Gladys M. "Dedee" Miller of Groton, Janet M. "Linda" Carvalho of South Lansing, N.Y., and Carole N. "Kitty" Bostick of Hebron, Md.; nine grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Hunt wish to thank the staff at the Delaware Hospice Center as well as Perry Rogers and his staff at Rogers Funeral Home for their kind and helpful professional services.
They also express their sincere gratitude and special thanks for all the thoughtful, loving help given them from their congregation, friends and extended family members and also to home health aides of Christiana Care, who have been like "adopted" daughters to Jean daily for the past eight years, as well as to the friendly Christiana Care staff, RNs, Division of Aging representatives, Milford Senior Center's Meals-on-Wheels volunteers, "the Schwan guy" and the librarians at the Milford Public Library.
It truly does "take a village"! Thank you so very much all of you! We know that everyone who took the time to get to know Jean loved her very much and will miss her special knack for making people smile.
A memorial service talk will be given by close family friend and spiritual "brother," Frank Silva at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Milford Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 509 Airport Road, Milford.
Burial will be private.
Instead of flowers, the family has suggested memorial contributions to Jehovah's Witnesses, c/o Milford Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, 509 Airport Road, Milford, DE 19963.
Arrangements handled by Rogers Funeral Home, Milford.
