Alma Huffman

Alma Austin Huffman, 97, of Bellaire, Texas, died peacefully at Houston Methodist Hospital on January 15 with two of her sons at her bedside. Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 28, 2017 at the Forest Park Westheimer Funeral Home at 12800 Westheimer Road in Houston. Visitation will be observed beginning at 1:00 p.m. followed by the service at 2:00 p.m. Interment will be in the Forest Park Cemetery. The Rev. Michael Fry of Grace Presbyterian Church will officiate at the services.

Alma was born on January 29, 1919 to Mamie and Harry Austin in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Within two years the family moved to Winter Garden, Florida, where many dear family members and friends live today. In 1946, she married John Hubert Huffman of Brownsville, Texas and they moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana where their first two sons were born. John’s job in the oil patch soon took the family to Monroe, where two more sons were born, and then to Lafayette, Louisiana. Alma and John’s last move together was to Victoria, Texas where John retired. John died in 1984 and Alma moved to Houston in 1989.

Throughout her life, Alma was active in the church, PTA and garden clubs. She loved to sew clothes for herself, her family, her friends and charity fundraisers. Since she moved to Houston, Alma was an active member in Grace Presbyterian Church. She also served as a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House and its annual fundraising gala. Alma assumed the responsibility of family historian and she regaled the family with stories and shared photographs at every opportunity. She forged life-long friendships every place she lived.

Survivors include three sons, Michail of Redmond, WA, Gary and his wife Jodie of Lafayette, LA and Bill and his wife Carla of New Braunfels, TX; three grandchildren, Mandi (husband Stephen) Legnon, Jason Huffman and Jarod (wife Lacey) Huffman; seven great-grandchildren, Ashley Legnon, Kimberley Legnon, Braden Legnon, Macy Huffman, Alec Gotro, Cameron Huffman and Evan Huffman; one brother, Douglas Austin of Winter Garden, FL; and six loving nieces and their families residing in FL and GA.

Alma was preceded in death by her husband John, her son John Keith, her sister Eva Walker and her parents Harry and Mamie Austin.

In lieu of flowers, Alma requested that donations be made to one of her favorite charities: Ronald McDonald House Houston, 1907 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, Grace Presbyterian Church, 10221 Ella Lee Lane, Houston, TX 77042 or Father Flanagan’s Boys’ Home, 14100 Crawford St., Boys Town, NE 68010.