Virginia "Ginny" Louise Hunt

Virginia Louise Moreland Hunt succumbed to the ravages of ovarian cancer on Sunday, October 21, 2012. Ginny Lou was born September 10, 1954, in Memphis, TN, the third of four children born to C.B. and Letty Jane Moreland. She moved with her family to Kansas City in 1960 and attended Hickman Mills public schools, graduating from Ruskin High School in 1972. In 1974 she married her high school sweetheart, the love of her life, Kenneth Ray (“Iron Man”) Hunt, to whom she had been wed for 38 years at the time of death. Ginny and Kenny had two sons Curtis, affianced to Kara, and Kyle, married to Annie. Ginny was predeceased by her parents and nephew Joey Moreland, but leaves her sisters Ann Forsee (Don) of Germantown, TN and Ruthie (Vince) Schmidt of Wichita, KS, brother Joe Moreland (Cindy) of Ray County, MO, many adoring nieces and nephews, great nephews and niece, in-laws Kenneth E. Hunt, John and Laveta Hayworth and Ronnie and Sheila Hunt. Ginny’s first career was as a homemaker for her husband and sons. However, when her boys were grown she went to work for the John Burns State Farm Insurance Agency in Overland Park, KS where she enjoyed the work and made many friendships. Later she also worked at the Country Mouse Hallmark Store at College & Quivira, again making new friends, most significantly Annie Field who became her daughter-in-law. Ginny believed firmly in the adage, “To have a friend you must first be one.” Wherever she went, wherever she worked, Ginny Lou extended a warm hand of friendship and was rewarded with an ever extending circle of true and continuing relationships with co-workers, neighbors and acquaintances in every facet of her life. Ginny had a great sense of decoration and design and four years ago she and Kenny moved to Bryant, AR where she was able to furnish her dream home among new neighbors and friends. When Kenny’s work took him to an opportunity for advancement with the GAF Corporation in New Jersey, Ginny was looking forward to making new friends and the proximity to New York. Sadly, however, cancer intervened and the Big Apple was denied the opportunity to know Ginny Lou. On the other hand, she was able to make it to her 40th high school reunion and enjoyed an evening with old friends despite her illness. Ginny was a woman of abiding Christian faith which sustained her to the end. She was baptized at the First Baptist Church of Grandview, MO, was for many years a member of Red Bridge Baptist Church and, then, for twenty years, was, a member of the Colonial Presbyterian Church of Kansas City. Visitation will be held from 1:00-3:00 p.m. followed by funeral services at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 25, at Colonial Presbyterian Church, 9500 Wornall Road. Interment in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, 10507 Holmes Road. The family requests memorial donations be made to Kansas City Hospice House, 9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 100, Kansas City, Missouri 64114 and/or Ovarian Cancer Research, Whisper Walk, c/o Spelman Medical Foundation, 5830 NW Barry Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64145. The family extends its utmost thanks and sincerest gratitude to the multitude of friends and family who supported Ginny in the most extraordinary ways throughout the extended and painful ordeal of her illness. You were the treasures of her life. She loved every one of you and so do we. We want particularly to pray for her guardian angels, Mayetta Holland of Leola, Arkansas and Randy Shafer, her palliative care nurse. Condolences may be offered at www.mtmoriah-freeman.com.