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Jerry Hunt
In Memory of
Jerry Clifton
Hunt
1928 - 2018
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Jim Lee Wise

It’s been a little over a year since my mother, Mary Wise passed, whom I’ve not honored in a similar I think, because of what grief does to us. Perhaps I will be able to finally do that following this. On Honoring Jerry Hunt, by his nephew James Lee Wise (Jimmy) I regret being unable to attend Jerry’s funeral, but thought I would share a memory of a life lesson for me, as something extended to his generation. He was always generous, accommodating, and fiercely independent whom I occasionally got to help clear his pecan trees of pecan-fatted squirrels. I received a life lesson after my first. What are you going to do now, as I was handed a pocket knife. The true lesson was that we were not in want of anything, not starving, and not in need of putting extra food on the table. For them, it was recalling and sharing what they did as depression era survivors, bearing the message for me of being thankful for who and what you have, as well as conveying how things can change for better or worse. We were going to celebrate the life of that tough old Squirrel and (for me) get to enjoy seeing my mother and sisters squirm at breakfast. “Tastes like Chicken, there’s nothing quite like pecan-fatted squirrel for breakfast!” If times were different as they were for some of us, you would be truly glad for it. I suppose there is nothing terribly honoring in that memory. But, it did strongly reinforce my appreciation of his and my parent’s generation work ethic, with unique appreciation of the sacrifices they all made for us and our futures through hard work, persistent determination, absolutely anything is possible.
Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 7:03 am
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