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Sarah 'Sally' Hunter, 88 Sarah Aileen "Sally" Hunter, 88, died February 28 at Brockville General Hospital after suffering a heart attack at her home. She was born February 1, 1919 in Foley Township in northern Ontario, the daughter of Charles Boyd and the former Rosena Weller. Raised on the Boyd pioneer homestead, near Parry Sound, she remained a country girl at heart all her life. In 1931 she moved with her family to Parry Sound where she attended high school and met her future husband. On March 22, 1938, she married Dannie Hunter in Hornepayne, Ont., and shortly after moved to Bayswater, a whistlestop near Sudbury, where her husband found work on the CNR. She and her husband moved to the Lyn area in 1943 where they eventually settled down, bought a farm and began to raise a family. For many years Mrs. Hunter helped her husband run a poultry farm as well as deliver the rural mail. She continued to live at her Lyn residence for more than 60 years, until her recent hospitalization. She enjoyed tending her garden and mowing her own large lawn until well into her 80s. A member of the United Church Women, she attended Christ United Church in Lyn and was a regular at the Wednesday luncheons until ill health began to curtail her activities. She is survived by her sons, Doug and wife Sheila of Lyn and Rodney and wife Mary of Arnprior, grandchildren Leslie Williams, Ryan Hunter, Sarah Hunter and Kimberley Hunter, great-grandchildren Taylor and Lauren Williams, and several nieces and nephews. One sister-in-law, Vera Boyd, also survives. Mrs. Hunter was predeceased by her husband Dannie in 1986, as well as her parents and brother Wesley Boyd, sister May Tennant and brother-in-law Fred Tennant, and sister Edna Smith and brother-in-law Leonard Smith. Friends called at the Irvine Funeral Home, Brockville, where on March 5 the funeral was held, with Rev. Bob Fillier officiating. Doug Hunter gave the eulogy and granddaughter Kimberley Hunter read from the scriptures. The pallbearers were John Tennant, Neil Cameron, Tom McMillan, Richard Bycroft, Ellery Edgeley and Ryan Hunter. Memorial donations were directed to Christ United Church, Lyn. # Published in Section b, page 8 in the Saturday, April 7, 2007 edition of the Brockville Recorder & Times. # Posted 10:00:05 AM Saturday, April 7, 2007.