Back To The Huntlist Biographies Page: Leon Richard Hunt, A Biographical Summary By Douglas Allen Hunt Author of the Homestead, Genealogy Website May 29, 1998 Leon Richard Hunt, son of Isaac Sylvester and Opal Irene (Miller) was born September 7, 1925 in Bazine, Ness County, Kansas. He graduated from High School in 1943 at Bazine, Kansas where he played coronet in the band and full-back on the varsity football team. He studied at Kansas State College, Hayes, Kansas; Long Beach City College and Orange Coast College in California. He served in World War II as a Seargent in the 124th Cavalry, Mars Task force in India, Burma and China and earned three battle stars in the battle for Burma. He entered China, by convoy, over the Burma Road. He was also awarded the "Purple Heart". After the war he settled in Long Beach, California where he had been discharged, and practiced studio photography and color re-touching. It was here that he met Beth Carroll who was visiting her sister, Maria Christiansen, living also in Long Beach. They were married in 1950. They had their first child, Douglas, in Long Beach and soon after purchased their first home from Leon's brother Marvin and his wife Virginia. The home was a modest rambler on about a quarter acre lot on Kathryn Street in Garden Grove. It was here that Steven, Roger and Kathryn were born. In 1962 they purchased their "dream" home, a two-story colonial, located at the end of a quiet culdesac in residential Anaheim, California. Leon took an active, leadership role in his children's activities, such as, Scouting and Little League Baseball. He also introduced his family to the wonders of nature with numerous camping trips, hikes and rock-hunting expeditions. Leon's occupation was primarily in Sales and Marketing. He was a partner in a food brokerage business, Brown Brokerage. Later, when the children were grown, Leon sold his business interests and became owner/ opeator of a vacation resort, Lundy Lake Oxbow Ranch, in the California Seirra Nevada mountains north of Lee Vining, on the site of a turn of the century mining town named Lundy. He brought the family together to help establish the business that first season and began the tradition of yearly reunions. Leon was an avid reader and never tired of exploring or investigating new vistas. One of his favorite hobbies was genealogy. He was responsible for gathering most of the information and documentation that is currently available on our Hunt line. Leon met with an untimely death and is deeply missed by all those whose lives he touched. In the Spring of 1982 he was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died of septicemia as a result of the operation to remove the cancer. The cancer was determined to be inoperable by the attending physician and his life expectancy short (1-2 months). Back To The Huntlist Biographies Page: