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Larry Huffines was a natural charmer with a ready twinkle in his blue eyes and a most delightful giggle that made everyone laugh when they heard it. He was a lovable optimist with a warm heart but with a life punctuated by tragedy, disappointment and physical pain -- which sometimes gave him a hard edge and curmudgeon-y manner intermixed with his sweetness. He was a beloved surrogate dad to so many of us and yet often neglected to tend to his own. He believed in Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, much to the dismay of many of his friends, and yet loathed the social programs that he was obliged to seek out in his later years. He thought Denny’s was the absolute best restaurant in the land and no one could persuade him otherwise. He loved Dr. Pepper, corn bread, chili and beans, onion rings and cinnamon toasters more than just about anything else.
Like all of us, he was a person of many shades and colors. But he enjoyed a full, long life, and loved many. We believe he died at peace with himself. Here is part of his story.
Larry was born on December 2, 1922 in Franklin, Kentucky to a hard-working farmer mom named Daisy, and a tobacco farmer dad named Thomas, who just happened to make Kentucky moonshine in his spare time. He had an older sister, 16 years his senior, named Mamie and an older brother named Clarence. Larry was always deeply devoted to his sister, who he often said was more like a mother to him than his own mother – her influence on his life was that profound. This comes across in all pictures of the two—they clearly loved each other deeply.
He often said that his house was in Kentucky, and his barn was in Tennessee, so close to the border was his home. At the advanced age of 7 he started working the farm, making pocket money by picking berries and helping the family by milking the cows and doing chores. By 10 he was hanging tobacco leaves from rather dangerous barn rafters, because he was young, agile and skinny with very long legs. Google “tobacco barn rafters” to see what this was like!
Living during Prohibition and the Great Depression in volatile Kentucky, with a renegade dad who made whiskey, a conservative teetotaler mom—along with early morning farm duties and a 5 mile round trip walk to school each day--meant that life was full of contrasts and early demands for this young boy. One of his earliest memories was looking through the stone slit windows of the Simpson County Jail in Franklin (google it!) at the age of 3, while visiting his dad who was doing time for moonshining. And he loved telling how he and his dad, both lovers of bluegrass and the Grand Ol’ Opry, tried to bring home a radio one day in the late 20s, only to find his mom with a loaded rifle making sure that no radios would cross her porch and no Grand Ol’ Opry would be playing in her house!
Greatly influenced by the wonderful bluegrass music of Kentucky and Tennessee, Larry proudly bought his first guitar when he 8 with strawberry money. During his last years he often said that if he could do it all over again, he would be a musician and make guitars and fiddles for a living. He loved working with wood, and the magic of music. Chet Akins, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash and others were his favorites and in his last years he simply loved to listen to anything by Andre Rieu. He could play the most beautiful chords on organs, piano, and stringed instruments, and we learned in his last month that he had a remarkable voice and a knack for making up songs in the moment – about anything – love, sunny days, even corn bread and potato chips. 
A crack shot from an early age, he often bragged about shooting squirrels for dinner by the time he was eight. His sharp-shooter accuracy was legendary around home and he became an avid bow and gun hunter in his later years. Ironically when drafted into the Army in WWII, instead of becoming a sniper, he was made a Medic, and could neither carry nor fire a gun. This must have been some form of powerful grace at work.
Larry learned to drive a 1930 Model A Ford truck at age 9, which started his life-long love and fascination with cars. At the age of 14 he informed his father that he didn’t want to be a farmer, but instead wanted to work with cars and then got his first “real” job at the local filling station. Later, a collector of MGs and a wheeler-dealer – a real Kentucky horse-trader – of all manner of other vehicles in any shape or kind kept him very engaged during his retirement years, as many of his friends can verify. 
He served his country during the last 2 years of World War II as a medic in the Army, and was fortunate to be stationed ‘state-side,’ serving throughout the United States. This lucky break gave him the gift of survival, and oddly enough, the chance to learn golf -- another hobby which eventually brought about the accumulation of over 400 golf clubs, countless tee-offs, and dozens of friends. 
His first job after the war was with Sutherlan Fixtures, a company owned by his father-in-law, where he learned the trade of the wood products and building fixtures industries, a field in which he remained until his retirement in 1992. At the age of 70, he retired from his position as Vice President at Pickering Industries, having developed many product ideas as well as life-long friendships through his many years in the field. 
Larry met and married his first wife, Evelyn Louise Sutherlan, in 1944 while stationed at Fort Lewis. They raised 5 children together for 28 years until her untimely death in 1972: Billie, Larry, Tom, Edna and Vicki. Sadly, he lost 3 of his children from 1999 to 2007, which deeply changed him in his last years. He felt lucky to still have Billie and Vicki in his life, but in his last year he practically rubbed the finish off his kids’ photographs, seemingly trying to find them and hold them through their images which he kept by his side, and wouldn’t let anyone move—ever. While he was not able to know many of his 10 grand children or meet his 13 great-grand children, he nonetheless was proud of them and regretted that he couldn’t share some of his family history and life stories with them. 
In 1982, Larry met his future wife, Eleanor R. Huffines, fell deeply in love and spent the next 33 years in her constant company, enjoying many adventures together; laughing and loving and sometimes fighting each other every step of the way. The sincere devotion and love between them remained steady and true to the end, and his presence and companionship in her life are sorely missed.
Eleanor brought 3 more children to Larry’s large extended family -- Donald, Marc and Suzanne Ropiequet -- who all affectionately called him Dad2. Two of these step-children relocated from California to care for him in his last two years of life, when he suffered from ailments associated with aging and dementia. 
And now we come to his last month on this earth. On March 5, 2015, Larry broke his hip in a fall, had hip-replacement surgery, and was placed in a nursing home for recovery. He failed to thrive in this environment, and quickly declined. On April 10, he passed away peacefully at the age of 92, with his wife and favorite caregiver, Michelle, nearby. Earlier that week, he declared to some friends and his chaplain, that while he had some regrets, he was at peace with his life. He declined so rapidly, he was only able to say goodbye to a few, but we believe that is how he wanted it--always a man who preferred hellos to goodbyes.
So many friends have spoken of their love and affection toward Larry. We sincerely hope you can all join us to celebrate his life on Saturday, May 9 from 1-4 p.m. at Elks Lodge, 6313 75th St. W., Lakewood, WA.

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