HUFFMAN, Robert Merle

HUFFMAN, HARRISON, STOWELL, HAWKINS, OTTE, MARTIN, FILBY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/14/2008 at 13:22:32

"The Fairfield Ledger", Thursday, July 10, 2008, Page 8

HUFFMAN, Robert Merle -- Robert Merle HUFFMAN, 76, of Kahoka, Mo., died Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at his home.

The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church in Wayland, Mo., with the Rev. Dan Deatrick and the Rev. Michael Atherton officiating. Burial, with military rites, will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield.

Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Friday at Wilson Funeral Home in Kahoka, Mo., with family receiving friends from 5-8 p.m.

Memorials, in lieu of flowers, may be made to First Baptist Church in Wayland or Blessing Hospice. Online condolences may be sent via www.timeformemory.com/wilsonfh.

Mr. HUFFMAN was born Nov. 8, 1931, near Libertyville, the son of Hollis Hiram and Jessie Ila HARRISON HUFFMAN. He married Carolyn Ann STOWELL Dec. 10, 1955, at the home of her parents in Fairfield.

Mr. HUFFMAN grew up and was educated in Packwood. Following graduation from Packwood High School in 1950, he entered into the Army in 1952 and was stationed in Germany during the Korean War. He was discharged July 30, 1954.

Mr. HUFFMAN began working for Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company in Grinnell Oct. 15, 1955, and attended CPCU classes at Drake University in Des Moines and remained at Grinnell Mutual until Feb. 1, 1971, at which time he and his wife purchased the Bricker Insurance Agency in Kahoka, changing it to Huffman Insurance Agency. He became secretary-treasurer-manager of Clark Mutual Insurance Company, retiring in 2002. He sold the agency in December 1996 to his son but continued to remain on the board of directors until the present.

He was a member of First Baptist Church in Wayland.

He was a former president of the Kahoka Chamber of Commerce, vice president of Kiwanis, served as director and treasurer of the Kahoka Housing Corporation, secretary of the Two-Cylinder Club, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, board member of the Kahoka/Clark County Economic Development Committee, past chairman and director of the Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, member of Who's Who in the Midwest, member of the NAMIC Merit Society of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies. He was inducted in 2003 into the Missouri Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Hall of Fame.

He followed his grandchildren in their endeavors and also showed his restored John Deere tractors.

Survivors include his wife; one son, John HUFFMAN and wife Nancy of Kahoka; two daughters, Cheryl HAWKINS and husband Larry of Glendale, Ariz., and Debra OTTE and husband David of Kahoka; two sisters, Phyllis MARTIN of Toledo, Iowa, and Judy FILBY of Johnston; eight grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Glen HUFFMAN.

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