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Carl Huffman's obituary from the Zanesville Times Recorder, page 14, 22 Jul 1952DROWNING VICTIM RITES WEDNESDAYFuneral services for Carl A. Huffman, 27, of near Harriettsville, who met death by drowning Sunday evening [20 Jul 1952], will be conducted from the St. Henry?s Cath-olic church in Harriettsville Wednesday morning at 9 o?clock with Fr. McNicholas officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body is at the Brubach Funeral Home in Summerfield and will be taken to the church Wednesday morning at 9 o?clock. Huffman was drowned while wading in Sunfish creek, three miles north of Woodsfield. Sheriff Francis L. Sulsberger, Jr. reported that Huffman, an oil field worker, and his girl friend, neither of whom could swim, were wading in the creek when Huffman stepped into a nine-foot hole and disappeared. The girl friend, Ruth Hogue of Stafford, drove to Woodsfield and Sheriff Sulsberger accompanied herback to the spot. The sheriff recovered the body shortly after 7 p.m. Artificial respiration was administered for two hours. Surviving are his parents, Leo and Christine Huffman, with whom he resided; three sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Sebach of Erie, Pa.; Mrs. Mildred Kessler of Ewington, O., and Mrs. Pauline Poleo of Hollywood, Calif., and five brothers, Harley Huffman of the home, William of East Sparta, Gilbert (Pete) of near Lewisville, Paul of Harriettsville, and John of Marietta.
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