Obituary of Wardell Hunter

Obituary of Rev. Wardell Hunter Rev. Wardell Hunter was born in the south central Texas town of Taylor on February 27 in the year of 1929. His parents, Rev. J.L. and Mrs. Ruby Hunter, relocated to Dallas when the young Wardell was only two weeks old. He received his early education at the St. Peter’s School just north of downtown. He then started elementary school at B.F. Darrell in Dallas before moving on to complete high school in Sherman, Texas. After graduating from high school he matriculated to Bishop College, then still located in Marshall, Texas. He enjoyed a stellar career as starting quarterback while at the historically black institution where he met and married Miss Ola Mae Brown. Hunter graduated from Bishop in 1950 with a Bachelors Degree in Education and later earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Prairie View A&M University. He began his teaching career in 1951 in Garland, Arkansas until moving his growing family back to Dallas to accept a teaching position in Richardson. He soon found his roots in the Dallas ISD in South Dallas where he taught at Lincoln, H.S. Thompson, Madison, and then back at Thompson for the next 26 years as a Language Arts and Social Studies teacher, but was most revered for being a math instructor. Rev. Hunter then moved on to Pearl C. Anderson and then Henry Longfellow Career Academy where he retired from the school system after dedicating a total of 36 years to the profession. After retirement, Rev. Hunter still found the desire to work so he spent the next ten years surrounded by his favorite tools, gadgets, and wood working equipment as an employee at Elliott’s Hardware. Rev. Hunter served as the devoted pastor at Olive Grove Baptist Church for twenty-nine years until his health declined. His legacy will continue through the lives of his beloved wife, four daughters, seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, cousins, and a host of extended loved-ones. He will be remembered as a wonderful father, gentleman, teacher, mentor, fisherman, golfer, clock builder, baker, grill master, mathematician, philosopher, reader, counselor, preacher, and Man of God.