Edith Hunt was born Nov. 9, 1908, near Balko, Okla., to Estelle Alexander Pugh and Emma Ann Alexander-Pugh where she spent her childhood and teenage years. She married Cheslie Herbert Hunt and they enjoyed 66 years together. The couple lived in Batesland, S.D., and Custer, S.D., before moving to the Flathead Valley in 1965.

Edith was a homemaker, donut maker and enjoyed crocheting. She loved to entertain her friends, family, sing, read her Bible, and serve the Lord.

Edith "passed into heaven" on Oct. 14, 2007, at the Mountain View Care Center in Bozeman, at the age of 98.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Cheslie Herbert Hunt; her sisters, Lillie May, Fannie and Verna; her brothers, Swanson, Grover, Talbot, Senator, Floyd and Roy; and her daughter-in-law, Betty Hunt.

She is survived by her son, Estile Hunt; daughter and son-in-law, Shirley and Dean Hartman; grandchildren, Wayne and Tina Hunt, Patrick Hunt, Ardean and Tom Johnson, and Linda and Jon Reed; and great-grandchildren, Steven, Christopher and Jessie Hunt. She is also survived by sister and brother-in-law, Anna and Marvin Wilson.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Nazarene Church in Whitefish. Arrangements are in the care of Dokken-Nelson Funeral Service of Bozeman.