Mary "Mollie" Eda Hunt

Mary “Mollie” Eda Hunt, age 89, of Elizabeth, Illinois passed away Thursday, August 3, 2006, at Galena-Stauss Hospital and Health Care Center. A private Family Memorial service will be held Monday, August 7, 2006 at Zion Presbyterian Church, Schapville, Illinois with Pastor Dottie Morizzo officiating. The family requests that any memorials may be given to the United Methodist Church or the Zion Presbyterian Church.
Mollie was born September 20, 1916 at the Francke’s Homestead, Hanover, Illinois, the daughter of Albert and Bessie (Bain) Francke. Mollie married Eugene “Gene” W. Hunt, on August 4, 1935, in Dixon, Illinois. Mollie will have a memorial marker placed in Lost Mound Cemetery on her parent’s gravesite. She will be put to rest next to her husband in Baxter Memorial Gardens, Arkansas.
Mollie was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and great-great grandmother. Mollie was a skilled artist and seamstress, she did beautiful knitting and crochet work. She learned quilting seven years ago at the Zion Presbyterian Quilting Circle. She also loved her gardening work. She was a member of the Methodist Church in Elizabeth and was also involved in many functions at the Zion Presbyterian Church.
Mollie is survived by two sons, Donald “Bud” W. Hunt, of Florida, Dale Hunt of Arkansas; two daughters, Mary Jean Stegman of New Lenox, Illinois, Elizabeth “Betty” A. (Roger) Farrey of Galena, Illinois; fifteen grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; five great-great- grandchildren.
Mollie is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and one son Lawrence Lee Hunt.