Obit: Hunt, Alfred Dewitt #2 (1870 - 1956)  

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Surnames: Hunt, Grosshuesch, Winchell, Douglas, Loppnow, Kleckner, Hinke, Schroeder, Zurn, Inskeep, Wehrman, Kent, Piehl 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 03/08/1956 
 

Hunt, Alfred Dewitt (20 Dec. 1870 - 5 Mar. 1956)  
 

Funeral services for Alfred Hunt, 85 years old, were held Thursday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Zink Funeral Home. Mr. Hunt died early Monday morning at the Bethel Convalescent Home at Arpin, where he had been a resident the past four years.  
 

The Rev. Victor Grosshuesch, pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed church, of Colby, officiated at the rites after which internment was made in the Dorchester cemetery.  
 

Mr. Hunt was born in New York Dec. 20, 1870. He received his education in Dorchester and was married there to Ida Winchell in April, 1894. A former school teacher, he was a rural mail carrier at Dorchester for many years before moving to Abbotsford.  
 

He is survived by one son and five daughters, Frank Hunt, Colby; Mrs. Frank (Anita) Douglas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Mrs. Lester (Irma) Loppnow, Thiensville; Mrs. W. M. (Hazel) Kleckner, Cedarburg; Mrs. Charles (Ethel) Hinke, Abbotsford; and Mrs. Gust (Mina) Schroeder, Tomahawk; one brother, Louis Hunt, Indianapolis, Indiana; 15 grand children and 14 great grand children.  
 

He was preceded in death by his wife on Sept. 13, 1945; by an infant son, Lloyd, in June, 1903; by one daughter, Mrs. William (Mabel) Zurn, in 1930. One brother, Frank, and a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Inskeep also are deceased. 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 03/22/1956 
 

Grand sons served as pallbearers for the internment of Alfred Hunt on March 8. They were Dr. C. V. Hinke, Jr., Abbotsford; Stewart Hunt, Colby; Dick Schroeder, of Texas; Vernon Zurn, of Iowa; Kenneth Zurn, La Crosse; and Arthur Wehrman, Loyal. 
 

The Rev. Victor Grosshuesch, of the Evangelical and Reformed church, of Colby, conducted the final rites at the Zink Funeral Home and at the Dorchester cemetery, where burial was made. 
 

Relatives from away, attending the funeral included: Mr. and Mrs. Gust Schroeder and two children, Tomahawk; Mrs. Lester Loppnow, Thiensville; Mrs. W. M. Kleckner, Cedarburg; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Douglas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Mrs. Edward Kent, Lombard, Ill.; and Mrs. Donald Piehl, Arlington Heights, Ill.