A. JACKSON HUNTER

SIKESTON -- Abram Jackson Hunter, 84, of Oakwood Farms in Sikeston, died Thursday, Aug. 20, 1992, at Hunter Acres Care Center.

He was born Jan. 24, 1908, at Morley, son of John J. and Nancy McMullin Hunter. He and the former Mabel Louise Hunter were married March 24, 1934, in Nesbit, Miss.

Hunter is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He taught in Cape Girardeau Public Schools nine years.

He farmed and was engaged in farm management 50 years. He was president of McMullin Gin Co. from 1954-80. In 1965 he received an award for Meritorious Service as president of Missouri Cotton Producers Association. He was instrumental in organizing and served as first president of the Cape Girardeau Council of the Navy League of the U.S.

Hunter served 20 years on the Scott County Health Department Board of Trustees. He was named foreman of the Scott County Grand Jury in 1969, and in 1976 he received a Centennial Farm Award.

He was a charter commissioner of Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority from November 1974 to June 1982.

Hunter began his amateur baseball career in 1920. He was inducted into the Southeast Missouri Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame in December 1987.

During World War II he was field manager of the primary flight training school in Cape Girardeau, and later was head of basic flight training school in Walnut Ridge, Ark.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Sally Williams of Ballwin, Judith Hunter of St. Louis; two sons, retired Marine Lt. Col. Abram J. Hunter Jr. of Sierra Vista, Ariz., William J. Hunter of Sikeston; five grandchildren, and two great-granddaughters.

Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Old Morley Cemetery, with the Rev. Tom Geers officiating.