Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Leslie Garland Huffman

unknown undated newspaper clipping obituary from grandma grace's book-not sure if or how related-

Obituary
Leslie Garland Huffman was born Nov. 16 1914 and died Oct. 13,in St. Anthony's Hospital, Denver, Colorado, as a result of injuries sustained in an accident as he was at work at the age of 24 years, 10 months and 27 days. He was born near Blue Ridge, Harrison County, Mo., and lived all but the last five years of his life in this community. These latter years being spent equally in Kansas and Colorado. He graduated from Gilman City high school, felt the urge of adventure and a desire for other fields in which to work and went West, moved by this inclination.
On January 14th, 1939 he was united in marriage to Hortense Sutton of Rifle, Colo. Surviving besides his wife, are a son of a former marriage, Harry Leslie; his mother and father, Mr and Mrs Philip Huffman of Blue Ridge; three sisters Acaleene Taylor, of Blue Ridge; Alice LEah and Carol June of the home; three brothers John L., Delbert W. and Clayton Rowe, also of the home; a grandfather of Chicago, Ill., a number of aunts and uncles, and other more distant relatives, with a host of friends, both here and the other places he made his home.
Those attending him in the last few hours of his life testify that just prior to his passing he asked his attendants to pray and he there made his effort of reconciliation with his Maker after which he peacefully moved from this life to the next as a last smile lit up his face.
Beyond the Horizon
When me go down to the sea in ships
'Tis not to the sea they go;
Some isle or pole the mariners' goal
And thither they sail through calm and gale,
When down to the sea they go.
When souls go down to the sea by ship,
And the dark ship's name is Death
Why mourn and wail at the vanishing sail?
Though outward bound, God's world is round,
And only a ship is Death.
When I go down to the sea by ship,
and Death unfurls her sail,
Weep not for me, for there will be
a living host on another coast
To beckon and give "All Hail."

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