Wanda Sadler Hunter

A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, July 7, 2015, at the First United Methodist Church of Iowa Park, with Rev. Rick Davis, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in Highland Cemetery, Iowa Park, under the direction of Dutton Funeral Home.

Visitation with family and friends will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, Monday, July 6, 2015, at the funeral home.

Wanda was born in Grandfield, Oklahoma August 21, 1928, to parents, George William Sadler and wife, Pleasant Cantwell Sadler. She graduated from Grandfield High School and then attended business school in Wichita Falls, where she met Sam Hunter, and they married February 9, 1949. They moved to Electra, Texas later that year. They had 2 children, Carol Hunter and Gary David Hunter. The family moved to Iowa Park, Texas in 1958, where Sam and Wanda lived for the rest of their lives.

Wanda was the secretary for the president of General Mills in Wichita Falls and later worked as a secretary for the local SWCD board. She and Sam were real estate brokers and operated Sam Hunter Real Estate for most of the time that they lived in Iowa Park. Wanda was also active in the Lady Lions Club, Iowa Park Garden Club and the North Texas Bird and Wildlife Club. She loved bird watching and took numerous trips around the country and Europe to observe birds. She participated in the Wichita County annual bird counts and could often be found feeding the geese at Gordon Lake. Wanda and Sam were long time members of the First United Methodist Church of Iowa Park. She loved her children and grandchildren and family and loved spending time with them.

Wanda was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, T.A., Eddie and Sam Sadler; and sisters, Lois Dobbs, Delores Cooper, Faye Hickman and Anetta O’Keefe.

Survivors include daughter, Carol Theimer and husband, Michael, of Woodland Park, Colorado; son, Gary Hunter and wife, Mary, of Iowa Park, Texas; brother, Leo Sadler of Wichita Falls; grandchildren, Elisa Morgan and husband, Robert, of Woodland Park, Sean Hunter of Iowa Park, and Patrick Hunter and wife, Cimbre, of Iowa Park; great grandchildren, Zady, Sam and Avery Morgan, of Woodland Park; Crislen, Caylen and Cole Hunter of Iowa Park; and Kaeson Melendez Hunter of Dimmitt, Texas.

Memorials may be made in Wanda’s memory to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund, 201 East Bank Street, Iowa Park, Texas 76367.