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Aurale 'Lee' Huff
21 Oct 1927
- 9 Jan 2010
Former ARGenWeb Nevada County Coordinator
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F Aurale (Lee)
Huff of Harwood, TX, passed away early
Saturday morning at Seton Medical
Center-Hays, in Kyle. Services were held at
the Harwood Cemetery, Sunday, January 10,
2010. She was born in Harwood to Walter and
Iva Huff and was preceded in death by her
parents; two brothers, Walter Huff, Jr. and
Wayne Huff; her sister, Martha Lewis; a son,
John Holbrook; a daughter, Melinda Antuna,
two granddaughters, Heather Windham and
Carrie Antuna, and great-granddaughter,
Kindra Albert.
Being mechanically inclined, at the age of
25, Lee rebuilt a Hillman-Minx automobile
engine with no help other than instruction
from her father, who had built airplanes in
Harwood while she was a small child.
Lee learned her trade in the family
newspaper business and, known as a “tramp
printer,” travelled across the United States
working in newspapers in Houston TX, San
Francisco CA, Cincinnati OH, Detroit MI,
Modesto CA, and San Antonio TX, where she
was a Linotype operator, type-setter and,
later, a computer operator. She was the
first in her family to become a member of
the International Typographical Union.
Lee was a member of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, where she
played the piano, the organ, and taught
Sunday School and Family History classes to
others. She loved music. She was devoted to
doing Family History in the church and was,
at the time of her death an active full-time
missionary serving as a family history
consultant and guide to people from around
the world who are searching for their roots.
Lee has contributed volumes of information
to the Family History Library in Salt Lake
City, UT, which is now available online to
the world. Her contributions to the family
history records in both the Gonzales County
Archives and the Luling Family History
Center are available to all who seek the
information and wish to continue the great
work in which she was so eagerly and
passionately engaged.
Lee is survived by six children: Jennie
Conley of Idaho, Karel Holbrook of
California, Peggy (spouse Michael) Aspinwall
of Arizona, Philip (spouse Karin) of
Colorado, Iva Antuna of Harwood and Sally
(spouse Daniel) Windham of Kyle. She also
leaves twenty-six grandchildren,
thirty-three great-grandchildren, three
great-great grandchildren; one brother,
Wallace Huff of Ohio; two sisters, Rosemary
Smith of Harwood and Frances DeChane of
Michigan, and many nieces, nephew, cousins,
and countless friends throughout the world.
She was a wonderful mother, sister, and
friend and she will be sadly missed. |
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