C. Bruce Hunter Sr.

Asheville - Calvin Bruce Hunter, Sr. 95 of 25 Warwick Road died suddenly, Wednesday, October 3, 2001 at Memorial Mission Hospital. A native Jacks Creek Section of Yancey County. He had resided in Buncombe County since 1947. He studied at Maryville College, Biltmore College and Western Carolina University with additional correspondence work at UNC- Chapel Hill and the University of Tennessee. He taught every grade in the public schools, was a principal of every department, a County Superintendent of Schools and a member of the N.C. Legislature in 1947. Mr. Hunter taught or was an administrator in 13 different schools. His work included 14 years as Principal of Dixon High School in Onslow County and 6 years as Principal of Patton School in Canton as well as a term at Bethel High School in Haywood County. Prior to his term in the State Legislature he lobbied that body for 17 years for the cause of education and has done research on schools in 35 countries. He was an active Freemason, initiated into the LaFayette Lodge # 83, Jacksonville, N.C. in 1946 and a member of the York Rite, was a 32nd degree member of the Scottish Rite with an honorary KCCH, Past Patron of the Esther Chapter No. 12, Order of the Eastern Star for two terms and a member of the Royal Order of Scotland and a Shriner. He had visted the Grand Lodges of England and Scotland, and Killwinning, the oldest Masonic Lodge in the world. He was one of 35 people sent by the former N.C. Governor Dan Moore to advertise the State of North Carolina in ten European nations. He was the son of the late John Wesley and Sue Elizabeth Metcalf Hunter and the husband of Mary Earnhardt Hunter who died April 18, 1998. Surviving include his son, C. Bruce Hunter, Jr. of Chapel Hill; sisters, Pearl Thompson of Maumee, Ohio and Mae Cole of St. Louis, Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Kenilworth Presbyterian Church with the Rev. John David Stewart officiating. Burial will be at Green Hills Cemetery with Masonic Graveside Rites to be conducted by the John A. Nichols lodge # 650 of which he was a member. The lodge will open at 9:30 a.m. Friday. The family will receive friends 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Anders-Rice Funeral Home.