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Bruce Powell Huff, Master Sergeant,
USAF (Ret), was born September 3, 1933, in McGregor, Texas. After a year-long illness he slipped away
peacefully on December 4, 2014.
Interment
will take place at 2 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2015,
at the Central Texas
State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen. Memorial
service will be at 11:00 a.m. at the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Hewitt,
Texas, on Saturday, January 3, with a lunch following.
Bruce’s
early years were spent in Coryell County where the Huff and Abel families
lived. He attended Waco schools, and
joined the Army National Guard, and ultimately the USAF, where he spent his
military career as an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer on B-25 Bombers,
C-47 (Gooney Bird), C-123, and the C-130 (Hercules). He retired after 22 ˝
years of military service.
Bruce
served in both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars. He was awarded numerous
medals throughout his career, and remained active with the Firebird
Association. Recently, Bruce and Betty
were both presented the Firebird Red
Feather Award from the Firebirds. The Red Feather Award is presented at each
Firebird Reunion to the Firebird than has given the most outstanding service
in the past two years. Bruce served as both past vice-president, and past president
of the Firebirds.
After Bruce’s retirement, he worked
for Morgan Drive Away and Bennett, where he was awarded safety driving
certificates during his years of service.
Survivors
include: wife, Betty Montgomery Thompson
Huff of Houston, Texas; brothers, Virgil Huff, Jr.
(Glenda) of Hewitt; James Huff of Waco; and sister, Elizabeth
"Sissy" Huff Pryor (Royce) of Waco. Children: Bruce Powell Huff, Jr. (Sherrell) of
Hewitt; Patti Huff Smith (Gary) of Coppell; son Adrian Keith Huff of Bellmead; Karen Huff Kloepper (Aaron)
of Coppell; Cregg Thompson (Chris) of Huntsville;
Brady Thompson (Julie) of McKinney; Ginny Thompson Koehnle
(John) of Willis; and Dana Thompson Edwards of Spring. Twenty Grandchildren and sixteen
great-grandchildren, with two on the way, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Preceded
in death are his parents, Virgil “Landel” Huff and
Johnnie Abel Huff Sowell and Charley Sowell, his son, Carl Alton Huff; and
sisters, Anna Huff Todd Street and Frankie Huff Prichard Millsaps.
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