Marshall County IA Archives Obituaries.....Huff, John Kirkman May 3, 1944
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Letter from Commander, US Navy, June 1944 and newspaper obituary
Former Lamoille Resident Reported Drowned at Sea.  A former Lamoille resident, 
John Kirkman Huff, 25, has been reported drowned at sea in messages received 
by J. H. Huff of Lamoille and Mrs. Ira Lively, route 3, Marshalltown, 
grandfather and aunt of the sailor.
  
John Kirkman Huff drowned while in the execution of his duties in combat with 
the enemy aboard the USS Tuna.  He lost his footing and was knocked over the 
side of the ship. Every effort was made to rescue him, but approximately five 
minutes after he fell, and while the ship was manuvering to rescue him, he was 
seen to go under and not come up again. 

The youth, who had spent much of his early boyhood in the Lamoille vicinity, 
was the son of Merle L. Huff of Freeport, Ill., and Mrs. Flora Huff of 
Knierim.  He later lived in Kansas and Missouri.  He had been a veteran of 
seven years service in the Navy and recently had been on a submarine destroyer 
off the Atlantic coast. 

Surviving are his parents, the sailor's only sister, Madeline Huff Smotherman, 
having preceded him in death only 13 months ago, and a nephew, Bobbie 
Smotherman.   

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