Obituaries

Sue Hufft went on to her eternal rewards on January 10, 2025, just before her 90^th birthday. She was born to Edward and Mary Anderson on January 20, 1935, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While attending Oklahoma State University where she earned her B.A. in Arts and Sciences, she met Allen Hufft, and they married on September 27, 1958. Allen’s career took them to Dallas where their daughter Cindy was born, and then to Jackson, Mississippi, where their son Craig was born. No matter where Allen’s work took them, Dallas was always “home.” 

Sue’s children remember her always devoted to family and church. A longtime member of Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church, she contributed her beautiful alto voice to the church choir, and she and Allen worked extensively to reorganize the choir’s music, even reprinting it in large type. As a member of the choir, Sue was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall.

Among Sue’s greatest joys was teaching preschoolers at Ridgeview Presbyterian Church. She was also a lifelong member of the P.E.O. (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood.

When Allen retired, they also indulged in their love of world travel, encountering several remarkable situations: Tiananmen Square during the first days of those fateful demonstrations, and Berlin when the wall fell. They drove across the entire African continent, and in Red Square they traded a pair of blue jeans for a souvenir hammer-and-sickle watch—now Craig’s.

When Sue was ordained an elder at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, she wrote this eloquent statement of her faith:

I believe that sin is the self-destructive breaking of relationship of God and fellow man. We are human beings created in the image of God—sin distorts, twists, corrupts and contradicts this truth. We bring loneliness and alienation when we separate ourselves from God and our fellow man.

I believe that God has proved himself trustworthy by his powerful and living action in the world and in our lives to overcome and free us from sin by the life, death, and resurrection of Christ. Jesus was the Word of God, who not only spoke of the saving love of God but demonstrated it by living as the man with and for other men. In saving us, God gives us a worth we do not have otherwise.

I believe that God does not stop with forgiving our sins, loving and accepting us. He promises the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit to work in us, accompanying us every step of the way, enabling us to do what we could never do alone, helping us to achieve results we could never hope for if we were left to ourselves.

Sue is survived by her husband and children and was preceded in death by her brother Jon Anderson and her sister Nancy Anderson.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests gifts to the Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church Music Ministry.