Daryl Leroy Hunter
Father Eugene Henry Hunter
Mother Nora Louise Saunders (Hunter)
Married Sharon Lynne Scott 8-7-1993
Children
Leo Scott Hunter 10-31-96
Possibly a Kevin from Barrow Alaska and San Jose (where are you) son of Dora. Give me a call - 208-709-3250
My History:
Born in Long Beach California to Gene Henry Hunter and Nora Louise Saunders (Hunter) on 1-11-1954 a great day for humanity!
We later moved to Las Vegas Nevada where My father worked odd jobs and my mother was a waitress. We remained there until 1959 when my mother left my father and moved to San Luis Obispo with her 5 children.
My mother's parents Leo Roy Saunders and Nora Belle Floyd (Saunders) were gracious enough to take us in and a year later desperate enough to purchase a new home for themselves, leaving us a nice home for us to grow up in.
As a single mother with 5 children my mother had no choice other than welfare however she put it to good use and obtained first her GED then a Bachelors Degree in Ornamental Horticulture,then a Masters Degree in education from California Polytechnic University.
As I grew up I developed an independent streak that lead me to trouble, nothing bad just incorrigibility in school and at home. It put me in a foster home in June 1968 where I remained until November 1970.
The following September my mother moved to Alaska leaving me a 3 bedroom house, going into my senior year at high school. Things were looking up!
A year later (1972) not being able to attend college due to a lack of funds and direction, I found no opportunity for meaningful work in a college town so I moved south to Ontario California where I found factory work as leather worker and later as a welder.
In 1975 a great opportunity presented itself. My mother having moved to Alaska had gone to work on the Alaska Pipeline and she thought she could get me a job. So it was north to Alaska. Alaska turned out to be a wonderful time, a wonderful place and a great experience. I never got rich working on the Pipeline however I did make some decent money and my hobby of the time, racing sled dogs proved an unforgettable experience. Another unforgettable thing about Alaska was the spirit of the people. Most had come from somewhere else they were either young and adventurous or old and adventurous as it takes an adventurous soul to leave home and search out new horizons.
I worked in Alaska on the Alaska Pipeline as a truck driver. I also worked as a carpenter, recreation director, chef, and real estate investor. In 1979 I had to leave Alaska and return to California because after the pipeline was over there was 60% unemployment.
In August 1979 I obtained my Real Estate License. Coincidentally that was the month that the prime rate went from 10% to 21% (thankyou Jimmy Carter!). My real estate sales career was dead in the water. The closing of this door did open a window as this financial crisis ushered in creative financing, i.e.; loan assumptions, owner carry backs and wrap around financing, if you could make a deal look good on paper, get a buyer and seller to agree on it , even a young flake like myself could buy all kinds of property. So I started buying and selling real estate properties for myself.
In 1985 began a love affair between Sharon Lynne Scott and myself that ended in marriage in 1993.
My ball and chain wedding ring.
The money I made in real estate investment was excellent however I was always painting myself into a corner and I new someday I wouldn't be able to get out of that corner. I started studying photography on my own and longing for a less chaotic life in a pleasant environment that led itself to photographic opportunity.
1987 Sharon and moved to the Jackson Hole Wyoming by Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I worked as a freelance photographer, construction worker, truck driver, snowmobile, fly-fishing, and tour guide. As a freelance guide, I worked for various outfitters in the Jackson Hole and Swan Valley ID areas. Guiding was a wonderful way to enjoy the local outdoors as well as providing photographic opportunity for my stock photo library.
October 1995 I bought my first computer so I could make promotional mailouts
for my freelance photography. Well I was making decent mailouts nearly
immediately
however digital design derailed my photographic aspirations as I had just
discovered a new and dynamic creative outlet. 2 months later I landed a
job as a high resolution scanner operator and photoshop artist.
In 2002 I started a website for tourist information and news for the Yellowstone region, The Upper Valley Free Press. The Upper Valley Free Press has given me the opportunity to use much of my photography inventory, and more opportunity to polish my writing. Best of all, as a tourist information site it requires me to go all over the region and do fun stuff then document it.
As of 2006 I haven't been able to quit my day job as my truck driving skills exceed my advertising sales skills but since the The Upper Valley Free Press is approaching one million page views per year I hope the advertising sales person can be aquired to make the The Upper Valley Free Press a financially successful venture and I can put 100% of my effort into it.
During the first half of 2006 I wrote a weekly column for a Jackson Hole newspaper, Planet Jackson Hole, called 'And Rightly So'
My photographs have been published in Outside, Snow Country, Outdoor Life,
Esquire Sports, West Coast Board Sailor, Warren Miller Productions, Flyfisherman,
USA Today, San Francisco Magazine, Fit For Fun (Germany), and Beet (Belgium).
Mountain Stock Photo Agency represents me, and sells my work worldwide.
I have done freelance work for the Jackson Hole News, Real Estate Photography
for Homes Magazine, Advertising Photography for local businesses and Public
Relations Photography for Woolrich, Shrade Cutlery and Images Group in Easton
Pa.
Hunter Tree | Saunders Tree | Bergener Tree | Hadley Tree | Scott Tree
Godwin Tree | Edwards Tree | Hardin Tree | Getz Tree | Floyd Tree
If you have any information to contribute
we sure would appreciate it!
e-mail daryl@free-press.biz
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