Francis Eugene Hunt was born November 30, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York. He received his primary education at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, and then attended St. Francis Preparatory School and College in Brooklyn. On September 14, 1949, he entered the novitiate for the Eastern Dominican Province at St. Rose Priory, Springfield, Kentucky, where he was assigned Paschal as a religious name and made his first profession a year later. Philosophical studies followed at St. Rose Priory and at St. Joseph Priory in Somerset, Ohio.

Shortly before solemn profession, Paschal requested and was granted permission to become a cooperator brother in the Central Dominican Province of St. Albert the Great. On October 28, 1953, he began his second novitiate at St. Thomas Priory in River Forest, Illinois.

Soon after his first profession as a cooperator brother on October 29, 1954, Brother Paschal was sent to work with the parish staff at Blessed Sacrament Priory in Madison, Wisconsin. Subsequent assignments took him to St. Dominic Priory in Oak Park, Illinois, from 1955 to 1957; St. Peter Martyr Priory in Winona, Minnesota, from 1957 to 1961; and to St. Dominic Priory and Parish in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1961 to 1973.

After leaving New Orleans in February 1973, Brother Paschal spent six months gaining experience in campus ministry at the Catholic Campus Parish in Brookings, South Dakota. In July of 1973, he moved to St. Rose Priory in Dubuque, Iowa, to work in Aquinas Institute's Business and Plant Management Office. In September 1979, he went to the Aquinas Newman Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to serve as Business Manager.

During the summer of 1981, Brother Paschal took advantage of the opportunities for renewal offered by the Paraclete Community's Holistic Development Program at the Villa Pius XII in Albuquerque. After successfully completing this program in January 1982, he was invited to serve as Administrative Assistant for the special Paraclete programs conducted in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. While working at the Villa Louis Martin in Jemez Springs, Paschal became interested in care for the elderly, and he hoped to pursue professional training in that field so that he could offer such service to the aging and infirm members of the Central Province.

On May 23, 1983, Brother Paschal experienced severe shortness of breath; a subsequent physical examination revealed that he had suffered a "silent" heart attack, and he was placed in the Cardiac Care Unit of Lovelace-Bataan Hospital in Albuquerque. He was

released from the hospital in early June and returned to the Villa Louis Martin in Jemez Springs for post-coronary care prior to more extensive medical diagnostic tests. He died suddenly during the early hours of June 8. Following liturgical services in Jemez Springs on June 9, his body was sent to Chicago for funeral rites at St. Dominic-St. Thomas Priory, River Forest, Illinois, and burial in the Dominican plot at All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines, Illinois, on June 11.