While trying to find out a detail about Hunter recently, I spoke again with Prof. Brawley who wrote the biography of Hunter. Brawley teaches here at ASU. Just before saying our goodbyes I asked him where Hunter was buried as I thought it would be a good thing to know.
In an amazingly quick, rapid-fire bit of technology, the following transpired in a matter of minutes...
BRAWLEY: All I know is that he died on May 15th, 1942 while living in Montecito. We tried finding out some more, but it seemed to go no where.
a few minutes later, taking a guess that the closest cemetery would be logical...
WOMAN AT SANTA BARBARA CEMETERY [sounds of clicking on her desktop keyboard]: Well, let's see, I have a Wiles Robert Hunter who died May 15, 1942, could that be him? Well, OK, let's see, he was cremated on May 18th and his remains were picked up by Phelps S. Hunter to be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York.
a few minutes later, thanks to Google...
WOMAN AT WOODLAWN CEMETERY [sounds of clicking on her desktop keyboard]: No, I show some Hunter's, but none with that first name or date of death. You might try some of the other cemeteries. Let me see, I can do a search in another database. No, no Robert Hunters come up.
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Any thoughts? Does someone out there in NY have an urn you haven't looked in recently?