Corporal Clarence "Bud" H. Huff, Jr. of Hinckley proudly served in the U.S. Marine Corps Item Company, 3rd Battalion, 5"` Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He was reported killed in action on December 2, 1950 in the Battle at Chosin Reservoir, Korea. His body was never recovered. In 1954 the UN and Communist Forces exchanged the remains of war dead (Operation Glory) to Kokura, Japan for analysis. Bud's remains returned to Hawaii from Japan in 1956 as an unidentified Marine. He was laid to rest at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl) in Hawaii with fellow unidentified servicemen. After Missing in Action for 62 years, the remains of Cpl. Clarence Huff, Jr. were identified on May 18th, 2012 from chest x-rays and dental records by the Joint POW/MIA Account Command Center Identification Lab in
Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

Bud Huff enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves upon graduation from high school in 1948. October 1950 he was sent to Camp Pendleton in California for deployment to Korea.

Clarence "Bud" Huff was born on November 22, 1930 to the late Clarence Huff, Sr. and Betty (nee Zenk) in Parma, Ohio and grew up in Hinckley, Ohio with eight brothers and sisters. Bud graduated from Hinckley High School in 1948. He played basketball in high school and loved to go horseback riding. He played baseball for a Hinckley team and was a member of the Hinckley Volunteer Fire Department.

Bud's mom lived to be 93 years old with the hopes that some day his remains would come home. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2002. In his honor, Betty was a "gold star mother" and led the parade in Hinckley on Memorial Day.

He is survived by his siblings Richard, Barbara (Joseph) Buehner, Rita (Larry) Tanner, Ronald (Sharon) and Robert (Jacki); as well as many loving nieces, great nieces, nephews, great nephews and extended family. Bud is preceded in death by his parents and siblings John Huff, Annamae Hatch and Susan Huff; sister-in-law Frieda Huff and brother-in-law Robert Hatch. Burial with full military honors will be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Ohio.