Bill Huggins

Services will be held at Cedar Grove Church of Christ in Andalusia, Ala., Saturday at 2 p.m., with visitation from noon until the hour of the service. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Church of Christ Cemetery. His son, Dan Huggins, will officiate.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Sept. 22, 2013, at Exchange Street Church of Christ in Union City.
Pallbearers will be Blake Huggins, Brad Caldwell, Jerry Tennison, Terry Pierce, Sammy Huggins and Jed Tennison.
The family requests memorials be made to The Bridge of West Tennessee Phase 2 Transitional Home for Women and Women with Children, P.O. Box 1208, Union City, TN 38261.
Mr. Huggins was born in Andalusia, Ala., Nov. 21, 1926, son of the late Sammy Dewitt and Vera Mae (Garrett) Huggins. He married his wife, the former Dorothy Campbell, May 29, 1949. She survives.
He was a member of Exchange Street Church of Christ in Union City for the past five years. He retired from 62 years of preaching, beginning at the age of 18. He preached for several churches of Christ throughout the Southeast. He served in World War II as Private First Class medic and was a graduate of Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., formerly Alabama Christian College, and Montgomery Bible School.
He is survived by four children and their spouses, Gail and James Wroten of Booneville, Miss., Marilyn and T.J. Senter of Hot Springs, Ark., Loretta and Jerry Tennison of Marietta, Ga., and Dan and Julie Huggins of Union City; 13 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews; his brother and sister-in-law, Horace and Doris Huggins of Athens, Ala.; and his sister and brother-in-law, Jeannette and Harold Pierce of Dothan, Ala.
He was preceded in death by his younger brother and sister-in-law, Samuel Farris  and Linda Huggins.
White-Ranson Funeral Home is in charge of the local arrangements and condolences may be left at http://www.white-ranson.com/. Foreman Brown-Service Funeral Home Inc. in Andalusia is in charge of out-of-town arrangements. Condolences may be left there at http://www.foremanfuneralhome.com/.