Douglas Lee Hunt, 91, died at his home in Portland, Oregon on September 6th, 2015 after a brief illness. Doug was born on September 22nd, 1923 in Boulder Creek CA to Thomas Lewis Hunt and Olympia Carmelita Rodriquez. An only child, Doug grew up in Boulder Creek until his parents divorced, after which he split his time between Boulder Creek and Reno, Nevada. Doug attended both Reno High and Boulder Creek Union High before enlisting in the Navy in 1942 as a 19 year old. It was while he was in the Navy that he met Millie Foote and they were married on August 4th 1945.

After his Honorary Discharge from the Navy, Doug attended the University of Nevada at Reno for two years and then transferred to Oregon State College of Forestry and graduated with a degree in Forestry in 1950. By that time he and Millie had two boys, Tom and Bill, with another baby on the way. While working in the forest products industry in California, Jim and Steve were born into the family. Doug and Millie and the four boys moved to Oregon in 1953 and settled into their home in Holy Family Parish. Jennifer was born soon after they moved into the first and only home they bought, and KC followed a few years later.

In 1959 Doug took a job with the US Forest Service and stayed there for the rest of his working career, retiring at age 60 in Sept of 1983. An avid outdoorsman, Doug took his family on many camping trips, backpacking trips, and car trips to see family in California and Nevada. Doug loved fishing, scuba diving, photography, leatherworking, gardening, sailing, skiing, golfing, and traveling. He built two sailboats in his garage and Millie sewed the sails for one of them. Doug and Millie traveled around Europe, the United States, the Middle East, England and Ireland. They took their adult kids and spouses on two vacations, once to Mexico and twice to Hawaii. Doug and Millie were members of Pleasant Valley Golf Club and he always said that Millie played golf while he played at golf! Once Doug turned 85 years old he could play golf for free at the city courses and took great advantage of this, playing for free for over 6 years!:>)

A devoted family man and Catholic, Doug was a member of Holy Family Parish for over 60 years and a volunteer at St. Vincent de Paul for many years, earning the “Vincentian of the Year” Award in 2014. Doug was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and friend to many. He had many friendships that lasted well over 50 years. Doug became very interested in genealogy and after he retired he was able to combine many of his travels with research for this hobby. He and Millie made trips to Boston MA, Washington DC and Salt Lake City Utah for general research, and then to Galina Illinois where many of his relatives had settled. He also took many trips to California and since he had a lot of research to do there, he often took some of the kids or grandkids to show them where the family had lived and were some were buried.

Doug is survived by his wife of 70 years, Millie.
His son Tom and his wife Sheila and their children Doug (Deb), Becky, Shannon (Natalie) Rachel, Matt (Lorie), Jessica (Tony), Amy, Sarah (Vaun) and Andrew.
His son Bill and his children Stephen (Deme) and Grove (Carey).
His son Jim and his children Lisa (Hollis), Carmen (Brandon) and Bill (Kelsey).
His son Steve and his wife Annie and their children Stephanie and Lindsay.
His daughter Jennifer Brightbill and her husband Tom and their children Ian (Amra) and Whitney.
His daughter KC Gibler and her husband Tim, (KC’s children) Daniel Alden, Alex Alden and their son Matthew.

Doug is also survived by his 22 great grandchildren, Tom’s grandkids, Brianna, Brandon, Michael, Dylan, Kye, Maddy, Nick, Tom and Ben. Bill’s grandkids, Olivia, Will, Mia, Emma, Ellie and Sam. Jim’s grandkids, Bella, Nick, Rosie, Quinn, Sydney and Wyatt. Jennifer’s granddaughter Elise.

Doug loved large gatherings and with 6 children, 21 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren, there were many. It was his wish to have one final large gathering to celebrate his life. He would be honored to have all his family and his many friends come celebrate on Tuesday September 15th at 10:00am, at Holy Family Parish, SE Cesar Chavez (39thave) and SE Flavel St, with a reception to follow in the parish hall.

Remembrances can be made to St Vincent’s de Paul, PO Box 42157, Portland, OR 97242-0157

Arrangements by Mt Scott Funeral Home, 503-771-1171
Viewing hours, Sunday September 13th Noon–5pm and Monday September 14th 8am-5pm
Rosary at Holy Family Parish on Monday, September 14th at 7:00pm
Funeral at Holy Family Parish on Tuesday, September 15th at 10:00am (reception to follow)

Burial at Willamette National Cemetery on Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 at 11:00am.