From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:44 AM
To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [KYF] OBIT: Hunter D. Burton, 2002, Mercer Co.

>From the Danville Advocate Messenger, 4 Dec 2002

HARRODSBURG -- Services for Hunter D. Burton, 87, of Linden Avenue 
will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Harrodsburg Christian Church by Don Chase 
and Phil Williams. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery with 
military rites.

He died Monday at St. Joseph Hospital.

Born Sept. 24, 1915, in Harrodsburg, he was the son of the late 
James E. and Hallie Brewer Burton. He was owner and operator of 
Burton Oil and H&B Sanitation. He was a member of Harrodsburg 
Christian Church where he was an elder and Sunday School teacher.

He was past president of Harrodsburg Rotary Club where he had 40 
years of perfect attendance, past president of Danville Country Club, 
and a past president of Mercer County Chamber of Commerce and was 
instrumental in its organization. He was a co-founder of Mercer 
little league football and past president of the Kentucky Housing 
Association. He was a life-member of Veterans of Foreign Wars. He 
also had worked for Southern Railroad, Ashland Oil and Marathon Oil 
companies and was executive director of Harrodsburg Housing Authority.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Zella Burton; a son, Eddie Burton 
of Harrodsburg; three daughters, Susie Duhe of San Clemente, Calif., 
and Ann Hunter Burton and Louise Bush, both of Harrodsburg; a sister, 
Mary Hookway of Tustin, Calif.; and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Tommy Ison, Jack Coleman, Jim McGlone, Jim 
Moseley, Amos Jenkins and Larry Forgey. Honorary pallbearers are 
members of Harrodsburg Rotary Club and employees of H&B Sanitation.

Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. today and after noon Thursday at the 
church.

Memorials may go to Harrodsburg Christian Church, James B. Haggin 
Memorial Hospital Foundation, or Harrodsburg Educational Foundation.

 

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