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Robert Hunter
1980 - 2025
UPCOMING SERVICE
Celebration Of Life
Nov. 15, 2025
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Rivercrest Country Club, Founders Room
Send FlowersRobert Hunter Obituary
04/28/1980 - 11/04/2025
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 proceeded 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 10am until noon.
Rivercrest Country Club, Founders Room, 1501 Western Ave., Ft. Worth, Texas 76107
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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Paul Hummel
Yesterday
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
Yesterday
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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