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Published July 02, 2009 11:22 pm - Friends, family gather at memorial service for Mildred Hunter By Johnna Pinholster VALDOSTA — Mildred Morse Hunter was remembered by friends and family Thursday as a person of gentle strength and intrepid spirit at the Mildred M. Hunter Community Center.
Pastor Veon Williams opened the memorial service by thanking God for giving the community Hunter and the lessons she provided. Hunter died June 25 at the age of 86. Percy Chastang Jr. said that everyone has a Hunter story and encouraged the audience to share their stories with each other in the coming days and weeks. She was one of the few people, Chastang said, who he could have a conversation with about sports and grassroots organizing. Sen. Tim Golden, D-Valdosta, said Hunter and Ruth Council are two people he could never tell no. Golden said Hunter served as a friend, mentor and teacher to him. On the morning The Valdosta Daily Times ran a story about Hunter’s passing, Golden said he was shocked to see a story with him also on the front page. “I couldn’t help but think (that) she must be thinking ‘I can’t believe I’m on the front page of the paper with that knucklehead former student of mine,’” he said. Golden then referred to a quote by Ted Kennedy that he made during the memorial service for his brother Bobby Kennedy. “He was a person who saw the wrong and tried to right it and saw suffering and tried to heal it,” Golden said. She displayed those attributes, he said. “Hunter was a great, great Valdostan,” Golden said. Mayor John Fretti said Hunter was a person he heard about before he ever met her. She didn’t question Fretti when she first met him, he said, but rather took his hand and looked straight into his eyes. Hunter emitted a spirit, an inner strength, an inner beauty that she shared with him, Fretti said. 
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