Donald Lee Hunt, a 71 year old resident of Newtown, MO, passed away at 12:15 a.m., Wednesday, January 02, 2013 at his home in Newtown.

Funeral services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Friday, January 4, 2013 at the Newtown Christian Church in Newtown.  Burial will be in the Brackett Cemetery.  A visitation is scheduled from 6 until 8 Thursday evening at the Church.  The family suggests memorial donations in lieu of flowers to the Brackett Cemetery and may be left with or mailed to Whitaker Eads Funeral Home of Trenton.

Donald was born April 13, 1941 east of Unionville, MO to Roscoe and Emma Ferrell Hunt, just five minutes after his twin brother Ronald.  The Hunt family moved to a farm east of Newtown when he was 4 years old.  Donald graduated from Newtown-Harris High School.  On August 14, 1960 he was united in marriage to Carol Tucker.  He worked for the Missouri Department of Transportation for 29 years retiring in 1998.  Donald was a member of the Newtown Christian Church and was a Mason and a past Shriner.  He enjoyed hunting, fishing, making sorghum and golfing.

Surviving relatives include his wife Carol of the home, a daughter Donna Prothero and her husband Greg of Braymer, MO, a twin brother Ronald Hunt and his wife Cheryl of Princeton, MO, a sister Melanie Finley and her husband David of Norborne, MO, sister in laws Pat Hunt of St. Louis, Mo and Maureen Hunt of Cedar Rapids, IA, grandson Ryan Palmer and his fiancé Leah Astle of Lee’s Summit, MO, numerous nieces and nephews and two step grandchildren and two step great grandchildren.

Those preceding him in death include his parents, two brothers Basil and George Hunt and a sister Betty Thomas.