{"id":50159,"date":"2022-06-27T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=50159"},"modified":"2022-06-27T10:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T14:52:43","slug":"ronald-l-huff-d-min-sth87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/ronald-l-huff-d-min-sth87\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald L. Huff, D.Min. (STH&#8217;87)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This obituary was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waitefuneralhome.com\/\">Waite &amp; Son Funeral Home<\/a> and can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waitefuneralhome.com\/obituary\/ronald-huff\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2022\/06\/huff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"475\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50160 alignright\" \/>Ronald L. Huff Sr., 84, beloved husband of Celia (Mong) Huff, went to be with his Lord and Savior on March 9, 2022. \u00a0Ron was born November 16, 1937 to the late John N. and Roxie (Lesh) Huff.\u00a0 He graduated as an auto mechanic in 1955 from Oil City High School in Oil City, PA. \u00a0In 1964, Ron accepted the call to the ministry and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1987.\u00a0 For over 40 years he served the United Methodist Church in eight different communities while completing his education.<\/p>\n<p>Before going into the ministry, Ronald served in the United States Army, and later the Army Reserves, until he became the father of twins, Ronald Jr. and Rhonda, as well as two older daughters, Diana and Debra.\u00a0 Three grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren completed his thriving family.\u00a0\u00a0 Ron loved all of his family and enjoyed all their activities.\u00a0 He and Celia celebrated 64 years of marriage in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Ron enjoyed singing in the church choir as well as harmonizing in Barbershop choruses.\u00a0 He also spent a lot of time tending his flowerbeds and growing his garden.\u00a0 His favorite motto in life was \u201cSee a need and meet it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with his parents, Ron was preceded in death by one brother, John Huff Jr., and two sisters, Lois and Patricia.\u00a0 In addition to his four children, Diana (Donald) Varian, Debra (Laura Russell), Rhonda (Reginald Campbell), Ron Huff Jr. (Holly), he leaves behind grandchildren, Leslie (Jon) Higgins, Cory Huff (Kaitlynn), Emily (Ignacio Olvera); step-grandchildren, Jennifer, Amanda, and Christopher; 8 great-grandchildren; sister Kathleen Haylett; a sister-in-law, Virginia; and several nieces and nephews.\u00a0 All will miss his love.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be held from 3-4pm on Sunday, March 13 at Waite &amp; Son Funeral Home, 765 N. Court St. in Medina.\u00a0 Funeral service will begin at 4pm.\u00a0 Cremation to take place at a later date.\u00a0 In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Habitat for Humanity of Medina County, 233 Lafayette Rd., Medina, OH 44256.\u00a0 The family would like to share a special thank you to the staff of Crossroads Hospice and Medina Meadows Care Center.\u00a0 God bless all who serve!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This obituary was originally published in Waite &amp; Son Funeral Home and can be found here. Ronald L. Huff Sr., 84, beloved husband of Celia (Mong) Huff, went to be with his Lord and Savior on March 9, 2022. \u00a0Ron was born November 16, 1937 to the late John N. and Roxie (Lesh) Huff.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50161,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50159\/revisions\/50161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}