In Memory of Candy Hunnicutt

Candy Hunnicutt, 59, of Wilburton, Oklahoma passed away at her home on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.

Visitation will be on Friday, August 30, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Waldrop Funeral Home in Wilburton.

Services will be at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at Wilburton First Baptist Church with Rev. Doug Miller and Rev. Willard Francis officiating. Interment will follow at Lutie Cemetery. Services have been entrusted to Waldrop Funeral Home. Active pallbearers are Jacob Marsh, Billy Marsh, Ilan Cisneros, Chuck Higdon, Izek Danel, and Mitchell Cook.

Honorary Pallbearers are Michael Keith Cude, Riley Wayman, Jackson Wayman, Rowan Cisneros, Rylan Marsh, and Mason Wilcox. Candy was a lifelong resident of Wilburton. Graduating in 1983 from Wilburton High School, she went on to earn her associate’s degree in early childhood education from Eastern Oklahoma State College. Candy worked in many places from NASA to AT&T, and also in the hospitality industry throughout her years of traveling the country with her father, who worked in pipeline construction. She worked at Wilburton Elementary from 2003 to 2016 when she took an early retirement to selflessly move to Texas to be with her sister, Kassandra whose husband, Charlie, was battling cancer. True to her passion for early childhood education, she worked as a preschool teacher in Texas. She stayed with Kassandra long after Charlie lost his battle with cancer. In 2019 she moved back to Wilburton to focus on her and her husband's health and to be close to her youngest child, Josh.

Candy was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic melanoma in September 2023 at OU Medical in OKC. After brain surgery to remove a large tumor, she underwent treatments at the Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute in Tulsa. After a hard battle, she was placed on hospice in early August.

She is survived by her pain-in-the-butt husband, Robert Hunnicutt of the home; daughter and son-in-law, Churon and Nathan Clark of Okinawa, Japan; favorite son, Joshua Hunnicutt of the home; stepson, Robert Hunnicutt Jr. and wife Tiffany of Lequire, OK; stepdaughter, Wendy Lee Bully of Durant, OK; stepfather, Fred Thornburg of Wilburton, OK; stepmother, Karen Fonville and husband Kenny of Springfield, MO; sisters, Kassandra Howard of Anna, TX and Rena Thomason and husband Jim of Blanco, OK; brothers, Junior Thornburg and wife Melissa of Wilburton, OK, Jeff Wilcox and wife Jodi of Springfield, MO; uncles, Don Wilcox and wife Dustie of Red Oak, OK and Keith Wilcox and wife Twila of Talihina, OK; aunts, Tina Costanza and husband Mark of Antioch, CA and Linda Wilcox of Talihina, OK; nieces, Kayla-Sue Cisneros and husband Ilan of Anna, TX and Sarah Howard of Anna, TX; grandchildren, Carson, Zander, Austen, Charlee, Alyssa, Chiara, Dakota, and Carlos; along with many other loved and cherished family members and friends.

Candy is preceded in death by her grandparents, Big Jack and Lahoma Wilcox and Earnest and Fannie Mae Campbell; parents, Jack Wilcox and Sue Thornburg; aunt, Cheryl Wilcox Armstrong; uncle, Tim Wilcox; and brother-in-law, Charles Howard.