Huff and Jenny (part 4)

With his disability check and  a VA loan, Huff and Jenny were able to buy a

Jim Walter home with four acres near the Air Force base in Lowndes county.

Even with his bad leg, Huff could still drive a tractor, but he knew that he would

never be able to farm for a living again. Huff took his high school diploma,

Honorable Discharge, and papers for the G.I. Bill and enrolled himself at

Mississippi State University. Nine years later he graduated.

That fall, Huff got a job teaching Industrial Technology at Hopewell

High School, an honorable job, a paying  job, benefits and a paycheck

on the first and fifteenth. A chance, a part of working America,

Huff and Jenny were living the American Dream. Life was good.

Over the next eighteen years, Huff and Jenny raised two children, Mathew and

Lisa Marie. Huff became active in the local VFW and was elected Commander

for a time. Jenny took up pottery, quilt making and collecting Elvis

memorabilia. The time passed by so quickly that it was hard to believe their

children had grown up and would be on their own soon.

Without the kids to tend to, Jenny started adopting stray dogs and cats,

she got a talking bird and an aquarium with brightly colored gold fish.

On the first and fifteenth they probably spent more on pet supplies than on

themselves. Pets made Jenny happy and Jenny’s happiness and love where the

most important things in life to Huff.

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