Carolyn F. Hunter

Mother Carolyn Carell Hunter, the daughter of Robert and Essie Fields, was born September 23, 1926, in Macon, Georgia. She was their eighth child. She attended the public schools, and graduated from Ballard Hudson High School, in May of 1944.

Upon graduation from High School, the war was going on, and she was employed as a cashier at the commissary at Warner Robbins AFB, and later relocated to New York. There she was employed at various jobs, until she got a job with the government

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She moved to Washington, DC, in 1956, and that year she met and married the love of her life Roosevelt Hunter, of Toledo, Ohio. On December the 15, 1956, they were married. Her husband was an active member of the Air Force and they traveled, from Washington, DC to Charleston, SC, and later to Toledo, Oh. Roosevelt was retired from service because of health problems. He wanted his family to have a stable and safe home, so in September, 1963, they moved to Columbus, Oh, and purchased the house on Fairwood Ave. where she resided for fifty-three years.

Mother Hunter, found herself widowed, after only a year in Columbus. She would go on to find employment at DCSC, where she worked until retirement, and while working there full time, she got her bachelor's degree, in business and reared her children with God's help. She testified of God's help in her last testimony she was able to give at church.

Mother Hunter loved to travel and travel, she did! She went to Hawaii, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Egypt, Bermuda, the Holy lands and many states in the US. She also loved people, never met a stranger, and was a strong woman who loved the Lord,

She was a faithful member of Gospel Tabernacle, United Holy Church, for over thirty years, under the late, pastor, Bishop Odell McCullum. She was a missionary, Sunday School teacher, and designated driver of the mothers to various meetings while there.

Mother Hunter, after much prayer, and soul- searching, asked to become a member of Deliverance Church of God Apostolic, in 2011, where her beloved son-in-law is the founder and pastor. Upon the knowledge that she had been, baptized in Jesus name, under Bishop Karl Smith, and was filled with the Holy Ghost, witnessed by her sister Essie Belton, she was given the right hand of fellowship. She became a faithful member until her health began fail.

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Mother Hunter, was preceded in death by her brothers: Robert, Joseph, Martin, Alvin, James Miller Lee Fields, Sisters: Essie(Wilbur) Belton, Kathleen(James) Alford, beloved son, Joseph R. Hunter, grandson and caregiver, Eric M. Page., Nephew, Robert E. Daniels. She leaves to mourn her loss, Sister, Edith F. Smallwood, Columbus, Ohio. daughters, Cheryl(Henry) Page, Columbus, Oh and Edythe Hunter, of Black lick, Oh, former daughter-in-law, Pamela Hunter, Louisville, Kentucky. Her beloved grandchildren, (her name sake), care giver, Carolyn, (Charles) Page-Bell, Columbus, OH, Carla M. Page, of Columbus, Oh, Dr. Kendra Sheppard, MD, Birmingham, Alabama, Rosalind Hunter, Radcliff, Kentucky. She has eleven great- grandchildren and one great-great-grand child, a host of special nieces and nephews.