Jean Hunter

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 3:00 pm

Jean Hunter died Oct. 26, 2024 at Elk Grove Village at Alexian Brothers Hospice in Elk Grove Village, Illinois after a short battle with dementia.

Jean Elizabeth Hunter, daughter of Gordon Emory and Elizabeth (Betty) Grace (Jungwirth) Hunter, was born Jan. 14, 1959 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She was married 1977 to Dennis Eugene Clausen and divorced. She married Doug Griffith in 1988 and divorced. In 2002 she married Lee Ellickson, Sr. of Decorah and divorced. She had one daughter with Dennis Clausen, Sunshine Grace (Clausen) Myatt.

Jean was raised on a dairy farm next door to her uncle Lawrence near Pickett, Wisconsin. Her parents moved to Manchester, Iowa in 1967 and moved to Decorah in 1973. She went to Decorah High School but finished her senior year in Manchester.

Jean’s love for animals was everything, and if she could not rescue one, she was fostering one. Cats were her life, and she later ended up having some dogs as well. She loved music, dancing, going to concerts and traveling; often she traveled with her five sisters. Her hobbies included reading, plants and horseback riding.

While in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Jean studied at the Tulsa Junior College. Jean left Tulsa in June 1993 and returned to Decorah. She had worked as an accountant/bookkeeper for a Decorah law office, at a bank and for an insurance company. In March 1999, she became the full-time caregiver for her mother until her passing in October 2000. Jean lived in Chicago from January 2001 to February 2002 working in insurance. She was promoted to account manager with Misy’s Healthcare Systems and moved to Raleigh, North Carolina in 2004. She returned to Chicago in 2007 to be closer to family. Jean was a Healthcare Solution Consultant at HealthDynamix and lived in Streamwood, Illinois . She later moved to Kalispell, Montana and worked for PBR Kennels. She then lived in California for a short time and returned back to Montana. When she became ill, she moved to Illinois to be close to her daughter.

Jean is survived by her daughter, Sunshine Grace and her husband, James Myatt, Jr.; four sisters: Virginia Albrecht of Montana, Bonnie (David) Graska of California, Barbara Pascoe of California, and Mary Lou (Don) Selle of Oklahoma; three brothers: Gerald (Ruth Ann), Gordon (Renate) and Peter (Celeste) Hunter; and by many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews, great-great-nieces and nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by two brothers: James Gordon Hunter and William Joseph Hunter; sister, Suzanne Grace Hunter; two brothers-in-law: Gary Albrecht and Edmund Pascoe; her parents, Gordon Emory Hunter and Elizabeth “Betty” (Jungwirth) Hunter; uncles: Lawrence Hunter, Tom Hunter and Donald Hunter; and aunt Katherine Bean.

Memorial and burial will be held in July 2025 at the St. Benedicts Cemetery in Decorah next to her parents.

Twin Pines Crematory of East Dundee, Illinois assisted with arrangements. Condolences can be sent to: Sunshine Myatt, 314 Streamwood Blvd., Streamwood, IL 60107.

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