DEACONESS LUCILLE WILLIAMS HUNTER, BORN TO THE LATE BENJAMIN HOWARD AND JANNIE WILLIAMS IN WASHINGTON, DC ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1934. ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2018 AFTER BATTLING A LONG ILLNESS GOD DESCENDED HIS ANGELS TO ESCORT HER TO HER NEW HOME IN HEAVEN. TWO SISTERS ALICE WILLIAMS, ROSA L. HOLMES AND ONE BROTHER BENJAMIN HOWARD WILLIAMS JR. PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

DEACONESS HUNTER WAS UNITED IN HOLY MATRIMONY IN WASHINGTON DC ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1950 TO THE LATE JAMES CHARLES HUNTER, SR. TO THIS UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN.

DEACONESS HUNTER WAS EDUCATED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. SHE WORKED FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE OF PERSONNEL IN WASHINGTON DC AND RETIRED AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF SERVICE. AFTER RETIRING SHE SPENT TIME BABY SITTING HER GRANDCHILDREN AND CHURCH MEMBERS CHILDREN AND TAKING CARE OF HER HUSBAND. DEACONESS HUNTER LOVE TO SPEND TIME VISITING THE SICK AND SHUT IN BEFORE HER ILLNESS, SHOPPING, AND TRAVELING. BUT HER GREATEST JOY WAS SENDING OUT BIRTHDAY CARDS AND BEING THE HISTORIAN FOR HER FAMILY.

SHE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HER LORD AND SAVIOR AND BECAME A MEMBER OF SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH SOUTHWEST IN 1982 WHERE SHE WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER BEFORE HER ILLNESS. SHE WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE DEACONESS BOARD, ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL, SENIOR CHOIR, FLOWER CLUB, GOSPEL ENSEMBLE AND THE PASTOR AID CLUB.

SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORY; EIGHT CHILDREN; JAMES HUNTER, JR (FAYE), DOLORES ALEXANDER (ROGERS), RONALD HUNTER (DONNA), PRISCILLA MACK, DONALD HUNTER (LUCILLE), BENJAMIN HUNTER (TERRIE), REGINA HUNTER, AND GREGORY HUNTER (MICHELLE). HER SIBLINGS REVEREND BARBARA GARDNER, DAISY JOHNSON (MARSHALL), LENA THOMPSON (MICHAEL), AND SAM WILLIAMS (RITA); ONE AUNT OLLIE CROSLIN (BRONX NY); ONE ADOPTED SON ANDREW CASSELL AND; FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN; LASHONTA PRINCE (PARIS), DONALD, JR (JOHNA), DANIEL JR., GREGORY JR., JAMES III, MYISHA (AARON), ANTHONY, ERICA, DARNELL, DAMEKA, DARRYL, DARIUS, MAYAH, JAMARA AND BENJAMIN II.  FOURTEEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; ZANIYA, ADRIAN, DIAMOND, MAYIR, DESTANI, GREGORY III, CHARLOTTE, ISABELLA, ELIJAH, PARIS, AKARI, CALI, CAMERON AND DYNASTY.  SIX HONORARY CHILDREN CYNTHIA CAIN, RITA BOLDEN, JEANNETTE WASHINGTON, SHERLEY JOYNER, CHERYL JACKSON AND NATHANIEL MCCOY; TWO HONORARY GRANDCHILDREN BRIANNA WRIGHT AND CIERRA SPARROW, A HOST OF COUSINS, NIECES, NEPHEWS, GREAT-NIECES, GREAT-NEPHEWS AND FRIENDS WHO WILL MISS HER TREMENDOUSLY.