Earl Dean Hunsaker

Mr. Hunsaker died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2002, at Miami County Medical Center, Paola.

He was born Aug. 16, 1933, in Blue Mound, the son of Kenneth Levi and Hazel M. (Worthington) Hunsaker. He grew up in the Blue Mound and Garnett area before he moved in 1958 to the Wellsville and Rantoul area.

Mr. Hunsaker spent more than 30 years as an auto painter for many companies. He was honored by General Motors for his excellence and outstanding work and received many awards. He also served in the U.S. Army for four years.

He was a past member of the Wellsville Veterans of Foreign Wars.

He married Mary Alice Lankard on Feb. 8, 1958. She died in 1984. He married Annie O’Berry on Aug. 26, 1985, in Ottawa. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two sons, David, Ottawa, and Raymond, Grove, Okla.; two daughters, Deanna Stonequist, Wellsville, and Cindy Grewing, Kincaid; two brothers, Lawrence, Eudora, and Roy, Olathe; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the chapel.

The family suggests memorials to the Earl Hunsaker Memorial Fund, sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 486, Wellsville 66092.