JOHN THOMAS HUNT
The Late Mr. John Hunt
The funeral of Mr. John Thomas Hunt, of 46, Gloucester-road, took place quietly on Friday afternoon, a service being held at the house and the interment being in the Newtown-road Cemetery, the Rev. E.G. French officiating.
The mourners included the widow, two sons and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Leaver and |Miss Langford, Henley on Thames (nephew and nieces), Mr and Mrs. Stanley Wakefield, Compton (nephew and niece), Mrs. W.T. Hunt (daughter-in-law).
Also present were noticed Alderman and Mrs. G. Griffin, Councillor and Mrs Arthur Chivers, Councillor W.J. Butler and Mr. F.W. Woodley (representing the Compton Pilgrims Benefit Society), Mrs. Poole, Mrs. Thorn, Messrs S. Seward, H.H. Smith, G. Owen, George Carter, Sam Smith, C. Field, M. G. Robinson and Tom Chivers.
There was a request for no flowers, but wreaths were sent by the widow, daughter and sons, grand-children living at Newbury, Southend and Southsea, Sister Addie (Brentford), and Mr. and Mrs. Skuse.
At a memorial service in the Primitive Methodist Church on Sunday evening, the Rev. E.G. French paid tribute to the decease's devotion to his church, and his service of over fifty years as a local preacher, stating that it was in the villages in the circuit that Mr. Hunt's preaching was so largely rendered.
Newbury Weekly News 21 February 1929
Buried 15 February 1929 aged 71 from 46 Gloucester Road. Bk 1917 p. 132 no. 10653
Mrs. P. p.42 WA14 died 12 February 1929 aged 71