Nellie Lucille Huff

Nellie Lucille Huff, 95, passed away Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, at her home. Funeral: 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at Sneed Funeral Chapel, 201 E. 3rd St., Lampasas. Pastor Rocky Moncus of First Street Church of Christ in Lampasas will officiate. Interment will be private in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. Memorials: ACH Child & Family Services, 3712 Wichita St., Fort Worth, Texas 76119, 682-432-1054, www.achservices.org; or USO-United Services Organization, 2111 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1200, Arlington, Va. 22201, 888-484-3876, www.uso.org. She was born Feb. 27, 1919, in Sickles, Okla., and raised in Gracemont, Okla. Nellie graduated from Gracemont High School in 1937, and married Hughlen Huff on Dec. 24, 1938, in Cordell, Okla. Nellie lived an active life as an Army wife with over 20 moves during their service to our country. She kept the home fires burning during Hughlen's deployment during World War II and the Korean War. They also lived abroad in occupied Japan and Germany after the war. After the military, Nellie and Hughlen moved to Abilene and finally to Lampasas in 1968, where she lived until 2009. Nellie was a world-class wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and mother-in-law. She was a talented artist, cook, seamstress and gardener. She was kind, generous, hardworking and virtuous, and had an incredible sense of humor. She didn't just "talk the talk" about living a Christian life, but indeed "walked the walk." She was a member of First Street Church of Christ in Lampasas for 45 years. The family would like to offer a special thanks to Nellie's team of caregivers: Suzanne Abbot, Silvia Lifalalo, Pansy Guidry, Connie Torres and Paige Taft. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Hughlen Huff; daughter, Melanie Ann Huff Huston; mother and father, Goldie Leona and James Henry Hildebrand; and sister, Verha Hollis. Survivors: Son, Jack Huff; daughter-in-law, Leanne Huff, both of Fort Worth; grandson, Dallas Huston and wife, Cynthia, and their sons, Benjamin and Jacob, of Charleston, S.C.; grandson, Grant Huff and fiancee, Alison Rehard, of Fort Worth; granddaughter, Adrianne Holland and husband, Bowie, of Fort Worth; brother, Coy Hildebrand of Claremore, Okla.; and sisters, Aleita Gunn and Louise Webb, both of Claremore, Okla.; and many nieces and nephews.