Charles W. " Charlie " Huss, age 99, late of Oquawka, Illinois, passed away at Oak Lane Nursing and Rehab, Stronghurst Illinois on April 2, 2024 at 8:27 am. Charles was born on November 11, 1924, in Oquawka, Illinois, the son of Walter Cecil and Leora Verle Sebring Huss. He was raised in the Oquawka-Gladstone, Illinois area where he attended local schools. Having served his tour of duty in the European Theatre in Germany during World War II, he was the eighteenth person to cross the Remagan Bridge in Germany. Charlie returned home and took up farming with his father and brother in the Gladstone area where they raised cantaloupe and watermelon. He later met and married Velma I. Furnald. Tiring of melon farming, Charles gained employment at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant in Middletown, Iowa, where he worked as a laborer for much of his life. Having a natural talent for playing the piano, along with his brother and cousins, he formed a band, "The Mississippi River Ramblers" and together

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