August 11, 2011 The Winona Times August Winona, MS Luther Lyndol Hunt (September 16, 1928 - August 9, 2011) Funeral services for Luther Lyndol Hunt of Poplar Creek will be at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 13, at Poplar Creek Nations Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the Poplar Creek Nations Cemetery. Rev. Ben Hill and Rev. Ed McDaniel will officiate the services. Visitation will be Friday, August 12, from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m., at Oliver Funeral Home. Mr. Hunt died on Tuesday, August 9, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. He was 82 years old. Mr. Hunt was the son of the late T. J. and Alma Gregg Hunt. He was a retired civil service worker with the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, and a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War. Mr. Hunt was a member of Poplar Creek Nations Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Pauline Gibson, and a brother, Doyle Hunt. Survivors include his wife, Mary Lee Garrett Hunt of Poplar Creek; three daughters, Linda Baggett and her husband, Leland, of Robertsdale, AL, Carol Barrett and her husband, Curtis, of Daphne, AL, Janet Morris and her husband, John of Quinton, AL; two sons, Billy Hunt and his wife, Glenda, of Poplar Creek and Randy Hunt of Robertsdale, AL; eleven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Mr. Hunt's grandsons, Austin Hunt, Ben Barrett, Nick Baggett, Tony Baggett, John Allen Morris, and Jeff Hunt. Honorary pallbearers will be his granddaughters. Memorial contributions may be made to the Diabetes Foundation, 22006 Halliburton Cove, Oxford, MS 38655 (www.msdiabetes.org).