Horace McKee "Huff" Huffman, Jr
Birth: Aug. 8, 1914
Dayton
Montgomery County
Ohio, USA
Death: Nov. 29, 1996
Dayton
Montgomery County
Ohio, USA
Deaths Elsewhere
Horace M. Huffman Jr., 82, bicycle maker
Horace M. Huffman Jr., 82, a retired bicycle maker and executive of the company that became Huffy Corp., died Friday in Dayton, Ohio, after attending a memorial service for one of his sons.
Mr. Huffman's father, Horace M. Huffman Sr., founded Huffman Manufacturing Co., which is now called Huffy Corp. and makes the nation's top-selling brand of bicycles.
Mr. Huffman was in town from his winter home in Delray Beach, Fla., for a memorial service for his son, Michael Gordon Huffman Sr., who died Nov. 21 at age 48. The elder Mr. Huffman died of an apparent heart attack after collapsing during a walk after the service.
Mr. Huffman was born in Dayton in 1914. He retired as the company's chief executive in 1973 and as chairman in 1984.
The Baltimore Sun,
December 03, 1996.
Family links:
Parents:
Horace McKee Huffman (1885 - 1945)
Mary Lytle Reynolds Huffman (1888 - 1973)
Siblings:
Jeanette Huffman Clegg (1912 - 2008)*
Horace McKee Huffman (1914 - 1996)
Phillips Gardner Huffman (1918 - 1946)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Unknown
Specifically: He has a memorial on the Dayton, Ohio, "Walk of Fame"
Created by: Steven Tynan
Record added: Nov 25, 2011
Find A Grave Memorial# 81008003
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81008003
