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Thelma J. Hunt

Female 1900 - 1955  (54 years)


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  • Name Thelma J. Hunt  [1
    Birth 29 Nov 1900  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 12 Nov 1955  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Burial 15 Nov 1955  Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Cass City Chronicle
      November 18, 1955
      Page One

      Heart Attack Fatal for Miss Thelma Hunt

      Funeral services for Miss Thelma J. Hunt, 54, esteemed teacher at Cass City High School, were held at 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church in Cass City.

      Miss Hunt came to Cass City from Roosevelt High School in Ypsilanti. In the more than seven years she taught here, she became a valued member of the school staff and student leader.

      School was dismissed Tuesday afternoon so that teachers and friends could attend the final rites. A collection was taken by her students. Part of the money contributed was used for flowers and the remainder will be used for a memorial that will be displayed at the school.

      Miss Hunt was born in Cass City, Nov. 29, 1900, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hunt. She graduated from Cass City High School with high honors and earned Phi Beta Kappa honors at the University of Michigan from where she graduated in 1928. In 1937 she received her M.A. degree from U. of M.

      She had a long, succesful career. Following her graduation, she taught in Ida and Ionia before acceptign a position at Ypsilanti where she taught from 1935 to 1948.

      At Ypsilanti she was a critic teacher and at Cass City she taught English and Latin.

      First signs of her fatal illness were reported Thursday, Oct. 27. She called authorities in the morning, saying she was ill. However, she later decided to go to school anyway. Later in the morning she complained of a pain in the chest and left arm and a physician was called.

      She was taken to Pleasant Home Hospital by ambulance where she died Saturday, Nov. 12.

      Miss Hunt was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Presbytherian Guild, Michigan Education Association and Hobby Club.

      Surviving are: two sisters, Mrs. William (Catherine) Wyman of Trenton and Miss Betty Hunt of Detroit; a brother, Russell, of Birmingham, and an uncle, George BURG of Cass City.

      Rev. Melvin R. Vender, Presbyterian pastor, officiated at the funeral and burial was in Elkland Cemetery.

      (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Winter 2007)
    Person ID I29805  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father Harry Lewis Hunt,   b. 13 Sep 1873, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1942, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Mother Minnie E. Burg,   b. 16 May 1875, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 May 1946, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 16 Feb 1898  Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9603  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 29 Nov 1900 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S483] 1920 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005, (For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the NARA web page. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1920 United States Federal Census, the Fourteenth Census of the United States. It includes all states and territories, as well as Military and Naval Forces, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Panama Canal Zone. The census provides many details about individuals and families including: name, gender, age, birthplace, year of immigration, mother tongue, and parents? birthplaces. In addition, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1920 Federal Census.), Michigan, Tuscola County, Elkland Twp, Cass City Village, S D 7 ED 179 Sheet 10B (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S722] Elkland (Twp, Tuscola Co, MI) Cemetery Records ; http://elkland.rawson.lib.mi.us/.

    3. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 19, September 3, 1956 (Reliability: 3).