Robert Hunter

1980 - 2025

BORN

1980

DIED

2025

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Robert Hunter Obituary

Name: Celebration of Life for Robert Hunter
Start: 2025-11-15T10:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-11-15T12:00:00.000Z
Location: Rivercrest Country Club, Founders Room

Robert "Lance" Hunter, born April 28th, 1980, in Fort Worth, Texas, passed away on November 4th, 2025.

Lance grew up in North Richland Hills with his parents, Julie and Paul Hunter, and later moved to Austin after attending the University of Texas. Austin became his lifelong home and the perfect place for his creative, kind and generous spirit to shine.

Those who knew Lance will always remember his thoughtfulness. His love language was gift giving – he delighted in surprising his friends and family with presents that were always personal, meaningful, and full of heart. He had a quick wit, a brilliant mind, and a deeply caring soul.

Lance worked for Apple for over a decade before joining Oracle as a coder. When his position went fully remote during Covid, he happily returned to Austin, the city he loved most. Outside of work Lance found joy in performing arts, comedy workshops, and the vibrant energy of events like Burning Man. He truly embodied the spirit of "Keep Austin Weird".

Lance's Austin friends can reach out to his family at: [email protected].

He was preceded in death by his grandparents, June and Bobbie Lambert, his grandfather Larry Hunter, and great grandmothers Ruby Smith and Illa Mae Pollard.

Lance is survived by his parents, Paul Hunter, Julie Hunter and her husband Jim McKnight; his brother Trent Hunter and wife Courtney; his sister Debbie McKnight; his beloved grandmother Nelda Hunter; and many aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends who will forever cherish his memory.

Lance's life was a reminder to be kind, give generously, and live authentically. He will be deeply missed and always loved.

There will be a Celebration of Life on Saturday, November 15th. Come and go 10 a.m. until noon.

Rivercrest Country Club, Founders Room, 1501 Western Ave., Ft. Worth, Texas 76107.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Star-Telegram from Nov. 10 to Nov. 12, 2025.

Memorial Events
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Celebration of Life

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Rivercrest Country Club, Founders Room

1501 Western Ave., Ft. Worth, TX

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Teri Marsh

November 14, 2025

Jack and I visited the hospital when Lance was born. A few years later, we usually played cards with Julie and Paul on Friday nights at their house when Lance and Trent were young. I remember both boys peeking around the corner from the hallway in their footie pajamas after they were supposed to be in bed. Lance in particular wanted to understand the card games we played like Hearts and Spades and to participate. I remember him studying the cards intently, clearly trying to grasp the system, the kind of thinking that I'm sure served him well in his career. Jack remembers that he enjoyed conversations with adults and would sometimes launch into long explanations of topics that interested him, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...a new cartoon that I was sure wouldn't last since it was such a bizarre concept. My mom taught Lance algebra at Smithfield Middle School, and she said he was an excellent math student.

I rarely saw Lance as an adult, but I always enjoyed hearing updates from Julie on his adventures, as he clearly forged a path of his own choosing: loving Austin, finding a career path in technology, attending Burning Man (early years when I'd never heard of it), and getting his art exhibited in Austin.

We grieve his loss along with Julie, Paul, Trent and all who loved Lance.

Paul Hummel

November 12, 2025

Dear Lance,
I wish I better understood what happened, but I hope you knew that I valued and appreciated you. And so I have to say these words to your family and friends, and hope that they will find comfort and feel fondness, love and pride.

As I look through your social media presence, I truly get the sense that you were someone I would have enjoyed spending time with outside of the workplace. But we were separated by time and geography -- Texas to California. I muse that you might have been into D&D or might have been a fantasy gaming geek. I see you duckpin bowling and how I tried that once in Maine (or maybe it was candlestick bowling). I see you happy and laughing with friends.

For the year that we interacted together at work, I so appreciated you being a teammate. You had a pleasant and easy going disposition. You made yourself available to your team and were very responsive online. You were present. You reviewed my PRs when no one else was around. You made yourself useful in unsung ways -- fixing security violations and updating code libraries. You also stretched yourself and built some interesting and useful tooling for our partner teams.

Anyway, I am dumb-struck and will miss you dearly.

Sherron Kilgore

November 12, 2025

You all are on my mind today. I will be thinking of you in your time of loss.

Beth Tirado

November 11, 2025

I only knew Lance for a couple of months, and not all that well. We never met face to face. He was a coworker, and I only joined the company three months ago. When I joined his team, Lance made the effort to reach out to me 1:1 and greet me. He was always extremely kind and warm. In every meeting prior to its start when we were both waiting, he was always the first one to greet everyone and be incredibly friendly and welcoming. He really made an impression despite my only knowing him very briefly.

My heart is with his family and friends. Losing such a kind person is such a tragic loss. My sincere condolences.

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