Tuesday, October 09, 2007

John Huston dies at 86

John Huston, husband of Dorothy (Liggett) Huston, died Monday night in the intensive care unit at Akron General Hospital. He was 86. John fell three weeks ago and received a head injury. He later developed pneumonia and other complications.

The obituary for John will be in the Akron Beacon Journal on Wednesday,.

John Morden Huston was born November 2, 1920 at home in Akron, Ohio, the son of Ralph Morden Huston and Mildred Martha Kline. He was a 1939 graduate of North High School in Akron and received the Manhood Award there. He served in the U. S. Air Force from 1942 to 1945 as a first lieutenant. He flew a B24 bomber. He worked 43 years at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron. He retired in October, 1983. They had two sons and three daughters and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

John and Dorothy eloped to Greenup, Kentucky, where they were married on November 29, 1941.

Dorothy is the youngest child if the late Percy and Grace (Parker) Liggett. She is the oldest of six living grandchildren of Frank and Nora (Penn) Liggett.

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