Hunn, 89, of New Lebanon, died on Sunday at Hospice of Dayton after a short illness. Hunn retired from the county in 2006 after 35 years, most of it as clerk, and occasionally filled in after retiring. Share your condolences for Juanita Hunn.
“She was just a dear,” said Montgomery County Commissioner Judy Dodge, who got to know Hunn in the early 80’s when Dodge assisted then-Commissioner Charles “Chuck” Curran.
Hunn would take the new employees under her wing and school them in the importance of the her work for commission.
“Things had to be turned in to her that were correct and woe to the clerk in another department who didn’t turn it in on time or it was not done correctly,” said Dodge. “She would tell them in a very nice way that this is how it was to be done.”
Hunn was old school until the end of her career, taking notes for the commission meeting minutes by hand, notes Lucas said were precise and accurate every time. She resisted the switch over to computers, only giving up on MS-DOS for the Windows operating system when her computer crashed, said Montgomery County Commission Clerk Gayle Ingram, who was Hunn’s assistant.
But really there was little need for actually writing anything down. Hunn remembered it all. Lucas said he could ask her about something the county commission had done years before and she would not only remember the details but immediately put her hands on the paperwork in the file cabinets that crowded her office or send off for it in the county archives.
“She was remarkable, she truly was,” said former Montgomery County Commissioner Vicki Pegg. “She kept us on the straight and narrow. She understood deadlines. She understood specs and she understood (Ohio’s) Sunshine Law.”
Hunn also remembered the little things - the names of friends’ and co-workers’ children, birthdays, and milestones, Ingram said. When Ingram became seriously ill Hunn “was like a lioness and her cub. She was protecting me at all costs.”
Hunn was involved for 64 years the Farmersville Chapter #155 Order of the Eastern Star and held multiple offices.
Sue Sewell, chapter secretary, said Hunn was “just a kind, generous very family-oriented person.”
“I think she had a high level of believing in serving people,” Ingram said. “She just never stopped. She was not one to stay home and watch soaps.”
Hunn’s survivors included her daughters, Diana M. Hunn of Kettering, Anita L. House of Wes Alexandria and grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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