Edwin "Steve" Stephen Hunt

Edwin Stephen (Steve) Hunt was born in 1943 in Apple River, Illinois. He graduated from EvanstonTownship High School in Chicago, where he was on the championship swim team, and played trombone in the orchestra and jazz bands. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and attended George Washington University while working part time for MPR Associates in Washington D.C. MPR Directors Mandil, Panoff and Rockwell, top civilian aides in Admiral Hyman Rickover’s Nuclear Navy Program, convinced him to join them as a consulting engineer. He met his future wife Joyce at MPR, and they married in 1967.

In 1977, Steve founded Dominion Engineering, Inc. with partners Jeffrey Gorman and Robert Ward in McLean, Virginia. After many successful years with DEI, Steve established himself as a professional engineering consultant. One client wrote, “Steve’s talent was to come up with elegantly simple solutions to the most challenging engineering problems.”

Steve volunteered with youth from the Capper Housing Development in Southeast Washington, DC in the 70s and served as a commissioner for the Northern Virginia Youth Wrestling League. He attended Rock Spring Congregational Church in Arlington, Virginia.

Steve was an avid reader, amateur photographer, collector of photographic prints, and Grand Prix racing enthusiast. He enjoyed white water canoeing, hiking and backpacking along the Appalachian Trail. His eclectic playlist included jazz, bluegrass, zydeco, orchestral works, classical organ and opera.

He designed a timber frame cabin for his family in the Shenandoah village of Washington, Virginia, and looked forward to his weekend tractor therapy. After traveling the world for business and pleasure, Steve retired to Joyce’s Texas roots and made Austin home in 2012.

He died peacefully in his home on April 2, 2023, and is survived by his wife of 55 years Joyce Latimer Hunt, his son, Jeffrey Randall Hunt of Silver Spring, Maryland, daughter, Sarah Hunt Schlather of New Braunfels, Texas, and grandsons Cason Edwin Schlather, Hunter Rhee Schlather, and James Thaddeus Hunt.

Predeceasing him were his mother Helen Hartley Hunt, his father, Rev. Edwin Simons Hunt, and his youngest sister, Kristine Hunt Anderson. Other survivors include his sister Kathleen Hunt Olson, sisters-and-brothers-in-law Joe and Elsie (Latimer) Canfield and Gerald and Sharon (Connally) Latimer; nieces and nephews Eric and Allison Olson, Gwendolyn Anderson Olson Rubenstein, Joseph Anderson Olson, Kenton and Teresa (Canfield) Johnson, Tara Canfield, Timothy and Myrene Canfield, Rick and Terri (Latimer) Dillon, Michael and Lisa Latimer and many grand-nieces and

nephews.

Donations in his name can be made to the M. D. Anderson Leukemia Research Foundation in Houston, Texas.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.wcfishnorth.com for the Hunt family.