Darryl Hunter

Lieutenant Commander Darryl Maurice Hunter passed away in his Chesapeake, VA home on April 20th. Prior to serving in the US Navy as a commissioned officer for the past 13 years, Hunter had quite an athletic legacy. Darryl earned high school all-American distinction in track & field at Dowling Catholic High School as a four-year letter winner. He also earned all-state football honors and all-conference baseball honors. He’s in the Dowling Catholic Hall of Fame. As an economics major who pledged Omega Psi Phi, Darryl continued to thrive athletically at the US Naval Academy. He won both indoor and outdoor Patriot League conference championships in the shot put during his career, and he won the shot put at 11 events his junior season. He graduated from the Naval Academy and was commissioned as a Surface Warfare Officer in 2008. Even though he could throw a shot put across the entire state of Iowa and bench press over 400 pounds, everyone who knew Darryl knew that his biggest muscle was his heart. He loved being a family man, and his loyalty showed as he maintained the same close group of friends all throughout adulthood. He loved his friends way more than he loved gummy bears, and he loved his family exponentially more than he loved his sneaker collection. Darryl once flew to L.A. to pick up an exclusive, impossible-to-find pair of Jordan 1s, but he proved time and time again that he would go to the moon and back for his family and friends. Darryl could use his intelligence and quick wit to hold deep, meaningful conversations or just to be a comedian, both in person and on social media. He loved God, basketball, music, his family, his friends and his fraternity brothers. He loved being a dad, and Darryl and Trenton could often be seen dressed alike in matching outfits. Those outfits always included matching Nikes. Darryl is survived by his wife Kyra, and their kids Kiana, Kaelyn, Kerrigan and Trenton, his mother Latrice Janae Hunter, his grandmother Ermayne Hunter and his aunt Linna Shuler (Randall) of Del Valle, TX. Preceding him in death are his great grandparents Elmer and Violet Evans and his grandfathers Ural Hunter and Earl Colton, Sr.