Judge Richard Lowe Hundley

By Staff
September 25, 2007
A memorial service for Judge Richard "Dick" Lowe Hundley, 82, of Hartselle was Sunday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. at Shelton Funeral Home Chapel in Decatur.
Judge Hundley died Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. He was born July 31, 1925, to Richard Lowe Hundley and Louise Fletcher Hundley on a farm near Mooresville in Limestone County.
He was preceded in death by a son, Richard Lowe Hundley III, who died in 1989.
He attended grammar school at Mooresville-Belle Mina and graduated from Riverside High School in 1943. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946 as a B-25 radio operator gunner. He attended Auburn University and received a B.S. degree in pre-law from the University of Alabama and a LLB degree from the University of Alabama Law School. He worked at the law firm Britnell &McEntire prior to his appointment by Judge Seybourn Lynne as U.S. Commissioner for North Alabama.
He was appointed as a federal magistrate and served in that position from 1951 to 1954. He then worked as a legal advisor at the Redstone Arsenal Legal Office from 1954 to 1958, after which he was appointed as a Morgan County Court Judge. In 1962, he was appointed as Circuit Solicitor for 8th Judicial Circuit representing Morgan, Limestone and Lawrence counties. He became a circuit court judge in 1969 and held that office until his retirement in 1994. He served in the Morgan County court system for 35 years and eight months.
He was married to the former Peggy Vinson, who passed away in 2003.
Judge Hundley was an accomplished student of history. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the First Families of the Tennessee Valley. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers in the territory that would later become the state of Alabama.
He is survived by two sons, Fletcher Hundley and wife Beth and Hobbs Hundley, all of Hartselle; a stepson, Eddie Holland of Springfield, Mo.; and two grandsons, Daniel Hundley and Jack Hundley, both of Hartselle.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in his name to Judge Hundley's ancestral home, which is now a museum: Donnell House, Inc., c/o Pat Lewis, 16906 Oakdale Road, Athens, AL 35613.