Daniel Clyde Hunter Jr. MD

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Daniel Clyde Hunter, Jr., MD September 26, 1922 to August 22, 2012

Daniel Clyde Hunter, Jr. passed away Wednesday morning, August 22, 2012 in his home from natural causes. Dr. Hunter was born to Daniel Clyde Hunter, Sr. and Gwyneth Evans Hunter in Ephraim, Utah on September 26, 1922; the oldest of four children.

In 1924, the family moved to Provo, Utah where they lived until 1938, when they moved to Salt Lake City. Dr. Hunter graduated from East High School in 1940 and went on to graduate from the University of Utah Medical School in the spring of 1946. During his time at the University of Utah, he served as president of Sigma Chi fraternity.

On June 4, 1945 he married Margaret "Margie" Webb in the Salt Lake Temple. Dan and Margaret then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan for his residency training at the University of Michigan Medical School. During his residency, he served as a Captain in the Air Force on Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico. After completing his military service, the family returned to Ann Arbor to complete his surgical training. Dr. Hunter was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School until he moved to Ogden in 1960. Dr. Hunter had a private surgical practice until he retired in 1990. Shortly after retiring, he went to work as a physician for Hill Air Force Base and IHC Work Med in Ogden until he retired again in 2003.

During his medical career he was a member of the Frederick A. Coller Surgical Society, the Western Surgical Association, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and served as Medical Director of the Ogden Surgical Center and President of the Ogden branch of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Hunter was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He served in many callings including Branch President, Bishop, Stake High Council, member of the Bishopric, Church Service Missionary, High Priest Group Leader, and Ogden Temple Ordinance Worker.

Dr. Hunter and Margaret, his wife of 67 years, have ten children, Daniel C. (Beverly) Hunter III, M. Kathryn (Layton) Alldredge, David W. (Carol) Hunter (first wife Sandy J. Hunter, deceased), Karen H. (Walter) Kunz, R. Christopher (Mary Rae) Hunter, M. Susan Hunter, Rebecca H. (Mich) Oki, J. Scott (Carolynn) Hunter, Curtis T. (Kelly) Hunter, Joseph A. Hunter; and have 35 Grandchildren and 49 Great-Grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Malan''s Peak Ward Chapel, 1643 26th Street. Friends may visit family on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. and Monday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the church.

Interment, Lindquist''s Memorial Gardens of the Wasatch, 1718 Combe Road.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the LDS Church''s Perpetual Education Fund.