Mon, Nov 23 2009
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Friends, family gather at memorial service for Mildred Hunter By Johnna Pinholster“She had an inner peace that got all over me very quickly,” he said.
These inner qualities resonated outwardly and Fretti said he only hopes to have a fraction of the inner serenity that she had. “She knew she was here in this life to give to others,” Fretti said. “Hunter wanted us to be a community that had no jurisdictional boundaries, no racial boundaries, a place where everyone knew they were brothers and sisters in what we did.” The community’s goal is to carry that forward. Mayor Pro Tem Willie Head was one of Hunter’s students at Pinevale and became visibly choked up as he recalled the impact Hunter had on his life. As a ninth grader, Head got into trouble for pulling a girl’s hair and lied to Hunter about what he was doing. She called Head up to the front of the class, gently, but firmly took his arm and asked him exactly what he was doing. Head confessed and, because he lied, was paddled by Hunter. Head got three licks and said she told him “That this is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you.” He never got in trouble in school again, Head said. “I am so grateful I passed her way,” he said. City Manager Larry Hanson said the day the community center opened he was standing on the court with Hunter when she was tasked with shooting the first basket. Hanson said Hunter turned to him and told him, “You have to help me make this.” The memory, of four hands putting that basketball through the hoop, is one he will cherish forever, Hanson said. Hunter’s daughter, Cheryl Hunter, then received an award on Hunter’s behalf presented by the Southside Library Boosters for her work with the Juneteenth Celebration. Jolly Twelve Club member Artie Marshall said she knew Hunter for more than 40 years. 
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