Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Huffman, Melvin 1964
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 8, 2011, 11:32 am

Ionia Sentinel Standard, 6 Jan 1964

Melvin Huffman, 40, husband of the former Helen Stevens of Ionia, died Saturday 
morning at Alhambra, Calif.  He had been ill the past 18 months but had worked 
until October of last year.

He was a veteran of World War II and Korean War serving 12 years.  He served as 
special investigator for Overseas Intelligence and for the past eight years had 
worked as a customs agent for United States government in the narcotics 
division.  He worked four year in England and two years each in Singapore and 
Hong Kong.  The past two years he had resided in California.

Mr. Huffman was born February 3, 1923 in Fowler, Colo., and was married to 
Helen Stevens at Santa Ana, Calif., February 14, 1944.

Prior to his service, Mr. Huffman worked with Wallace Jackson at Boynton 
funeral home one year.

He is survived by his wife, Helen; two daughters, Carol Anne 16, and Melanie 7; 
his father, Woodson D. Huffman of Mountain Home, Ark.; a brother, Kenneth R. 
Huffman in Turkey; and a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Arnold of Olympia, Wash.

The body will arrive in Ionia late Thursday evening and funeral service will be 
conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Boynton funeral home.  Interment will be at 
Easton cemetery.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/h/huffman14392nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb