Bert Huffman

HUFFMAN, BLACK, CANNY

Posted By: Deb Barker (email)
Date: 8/6/2025 at 19:29:02

BATAVIA. Bert HUFFMAN, 76, former longtime resident of the Batavia community, died Mon. evening at the home of his grandson William HUFFMAN, at Oneonta, Ala., where he had been visiting. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Batavia; Rev. Kermit Black officiating. Burial in Batavia Cemetery. Born May 18, 1894, in Davis County, near Floris, son of Hiram and Alice CHRISTY HUFFMAN; married Lydia CANNY May 3, 1916; she died 1952. He farmed in the Batavia community 40 years before going to Ottumwa to make his home with his son, Delbert HUFFMAN, 320 N. Marion; and with his daughter, Ferne HUFFMAN, Fairfield, for the past eight years. Survivors include his daughter Ferne; and two sons, Delbert, Ottumwa, and Clell, Birmingham, Ala.; six grandchildren, several grgrchn, two sisters, Mrs. Frank RIZOR, Fairfield, and Mrs. Clyde McClure, Eldon; a brother William HUFFMAN, Eldon, and a half-sister, Mrs. Lillian LEPPER, Galesburg, Ill.