Hartford City
Helen R. “Tommie” Arbogast Huggins, age 86, formerly
of Hartford City, Indiana, passed away on Friday, December 26, 2014 at Hillside
Country Living in Bryan, Ohio.
Born in
Akron, Ohio September 18, 1928, she was the daughter of Joseph and Monah Arbogast.
Tommie graduated from Green Bank High School, Green Bank, West Virginia and
also graduated from Indiana Business College in Muncie, Indiana. She married
Joseph R. Huggins in 1947 in Madison, Indiana. She had been employed at
Production Credit Association, the Blackford County, Indiana Auditors office
and retired from Crist Incorporated.
Tommie attended the Walnut Corner Church near
Portland and was a past Worthy Matron of Purity Chapter #126 of the Eastern
Star. She was also a member of the D. A. R.
Since her retirement, she had spent a number of
winters at Sunny Breeze Harbor near Arcadia, Florida before moving to Hillside
Country Living near Bryan, Ohio.
Survivors include one daughter, Millie (J.B.) Orendorff,
Bryan, Ohio; three grandchildren, Jennifer (Andy) Fitzpatrick, Montgomery,
Ohio, April (Greg) Brown, Woodhaven, Michigan and Christian Orendorff, Bryan,
Ohio; four great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Hilda G. (Billie) Wright and
Patricia C. Fortney of Newport, PA.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her
husband and one sister.
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday, December
30, 2014 in Waters Funeral Home 501 W. Washington St., Hartford City with
Pastor Steve Rogers officiating. Entombment will follow in the Gardens of Memory
Mausoleum, Muncie.
Friends may call at the funeral home from noon until
the service at 1 p.m. on Tuesday.
Contributions in memory of Helen R. “Tommie” Huggins
are suggested to the Walnut Corner Church or Hillside Country Living, Bryan,
Ohio.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at:
www.watersfuneralhomes.com.
