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ObituaryA Memorial
service for Emily Hunter, who died on April 12th, will be held at 1:00 pm on
Saturday, May 12 at the Peoples Church, located at 6801 E. Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver, WA.
Emily was born in Portland on October 7, 1919. Her parents were Philip Benson Perkins and Meta Irene
Warner. Emily entered Jefferson High School at age 12.
She graduated with “honors,” and was the youngest student in her class.
After attending Oregon Normal School in Monmouth for one
year, she decided that a business career held more interest and entered and graduated
from Northwestern Business College.
While still in her teens she was declared to be “the best darn secretary” by
the General Superintendent of Northwestern Electric Co. where she worked.
During this time she designed the winning Rose Festival float and was in charge
of parade financial matters. She was later working for an architectural company
in 1946 when she married Wayne Hunter.
During the 1950’s Emily was a special
writer for the Oregonian, contributing human interest and informational articles.
She later wrote and illustrated eight Christian-themed books for preteens and
teenagers. Her first book was the result of an outline of ideas that she
created in order to teach a Christian Charm Course for girls at her church. The
basic premise was that “real outer beauty must result from an inner beauty!”
After running into several roadblocks from established publishers, and with
encouragement from her husband, she agreed to create their own publishing
company and “Manna Publications” came into being. The \"Christian Charm
Course”, first published in 1967, found worldwide distribution and was
translated into many languages. Recently, the course has been updated by
Harvest House Publishers.
One of her books, “Bible Time Nursery
Rhymes” was the best seller in the Christian category for one year! Emily’s
greatest joy was to tell her grandchildren bedtime stories. Because of her
books, she has been able to tell millions of children bedtime stories. In 1976
Emily and Wayne moved to an acreage in the foothills north of Camas where they
lived until 1993 when they moved to Vancouver and into a lovely home that Emily had designed. They were active participants
in a senior musical comedy group called “The Glad Timers” where Emily and
worship leader Ron Bowe created lyrics and composed music for a musical of the
same name.
Emily’s faith was expressed by her
favorite hymn, “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and
righteousness!” Survivors include her husband Wayne, son Gerald, daughter
Rosalie Cole, seven grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. A son, Dr.
Clifford Wayne Hunter, preceded her in death.
Brown’s Funeral Home and Cremation
Services in Camas has been entrusted with arrangements.
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