Harold Huff

Harold Huff, resident of the Oakland Community, United States Army Veteran and retired maintenance mechanic died Wednesday morning, June 6, 2012 at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center where he had been a patient for one week. He was 72 years of age and died following an illness of two months.

Services of Remembrance for Mr. Huff were conducted at 5 P.M. Thursday, June 7th at the Morris Chapel Baptist Church in Somerville with Rev. John Ed Watkins, pastor of the church officiating. Interment with Full Military Honors will be at 1 P.M. (EST) Saturday, June 9th at the Locust Grove Cemetery in Keavy, Kentucky. Arrangements are provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes and Cremation Center — Main Chapel of Somerville.

Mr. Huff was born October 5, 1939 in Leslie, Kentucky. He was preceded in death by his parents, Hansford Huff and Fanny Jones Huff. As a young person, he was a Veteran of the United States Army and was married August 2, 1974 to the former Tonya Hibbard of Hamilton, Ohio, who survives. Mr. Huff was a former resident of Hamilton, Ohio, where he was employed for a number of years by the Mosler Safe Company.

He and his family later moved to West Tennessee where he was employed as a maintenance mechanic for the Kraft Foods Corporation in Memphis for 20 years before his retirement 8 years ago. Mr. Huff had been a resident of the Oakland Community in Fayette County for the past 38 years and was a member of the Oakland Church of Christ. He will be remembered as a family-oriented person whose interests included old vehicles and car racing.

In addition to his wife, Mr. Huff is survived by three daughter, Pamela Huff Johnson of Corbin, KY, Sonya Huff of Dalton, GA, Robin Huff Phillips of Picayune, MS; three sons, Matthew Huff of Oakland, Harold Huff, Jr. of Destin, FL, James Huff of Oakland; four sisters, seven brothers, eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Those honored to serve as casketbearers will be Delaney Huff, Timmy Johnson, Cody Walters, Robert Johnson, Taylor Huff and Tyler Huff.

The family requests that memorials be directed to the church, charity or organization of the donor’s choice.