Who's Who of Crow Creek Valley

Florence Huffer

Born: June 18, 1887
Died: November 24, 1984
Place of birth: Belvidere, Tenn.
Last place of residence: Sherwood, Tenn.
Mother: Mary Beatrice Winter, 1865
Father: William Huffer, 1864

My aunt Florence, seated, and my grandmother Esther, standing

Florence Huffer

By John Lynch

More than six generations knew her as "Miss Florence". For some she was their first grade teacher. For others she was their Sunday school teacher. I had the good fortune to know her as Aunt Florence -- private tutor, playmate, friend.

She came to Sherwood from Belvidere, probably sometime around World War I and taught first grade until tuberculosis forced her to retire from teaching around 1951.

After she recovered from TB she took up full time volunteer work at Epiphany Mission and continued until shortly before her death in 1984.

Aunt Florence with Fr. Patty Kirby on her 90th birthday in 1977.