Orval E. Hunt Jr., 55, of Jacksonville, N.C. died, Feb. 19, 2007, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, N.C. The retired Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant was a 1983 veteran of Beirut, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. He was serving as the BLT comm chief and is reported to have been badly injured in the Oct. 23 bombing. This Marine was a familiar face each year at the annual Remembrance in Jacksonville. Funeral services were held at First Baptist Church on Gum Branch Road with the Rev. Mike Turner officiating. Burial with full military honors followed at Coastal Carolina State Veterans Cemetery. A native of South Charlestown, W.Va., he was a son of Orval E. Hunt and Ruth (Pickens) Hunt. A retired master gunnery sergeant with the United States Marine Corps, he was a veteran of Desert Storm and a survivor of the Beirut bombing of 1983. Survivors other than his parents, include his wife, Cindi E. Hunt of the home; daughter, Mendy Radyshewsky of Woodbridge, Va.; son, Jack Hunt of Accokeek, Md.; daughters Marcy Duff of Greenville and Molly Wald of Pekin, Ill.; brother, Mike Hunt of Hernshaw, W.Va.; and six grandchildren, Daniel and Josiah Hunt, Tyson and Landon Duff, Justin Wald and Brooke Radyshewsky. ~ Cpl. Karl K. Wittstruck
Orval E. Hunt Jr., 55, of Jacksonville, N.C. died, Feb. 19, 2007, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville, N.C. The retired Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant was a 1983 veteran of Beirut, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. He was serving as the BLT comm chief and is reported to have been badly injured in the Oct. 23 bombing. This Marine was a familiar face each year at the annual Remembrance in Jacksonville. Funeral services were held at First Baptist Church on Gum Branch Road with the Rev. Mike Turner officiating. Burial with full military honors followed at Coastal Carolina State Veterans Cemetery. A native of South Charlestown, W.Va., he was a son of Orval E. Hunt and Ruth (Pickens) Hunt. A retired master gunnery sergeant with the United States Marine Corps, he was a veteran of Desert Storm and a survivor of the Beirut bombing of 1983. Survivors other than his parents, include his wife, Cindi E. Hunt of the home; daughter, Mendy Radyshewsky of Woodbridge, Va.; son, Jack Hunt of Accokeek, Md.; daughters Marcy Duff of Greenville and Molly Wald of Pekin, Ill.; brother, Mike Hunt of Hernshaw, W.Va.; and six grandchildren, Daniel and Josiah Hunt, Tyson and Landon Duff, Justin Wald and Brooke Radyshewsky. ~ Cpl. Karl K. Wittstruck
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