Huling, John P.

John Patrick Huling

West Chester, Ohio

Feather Location: Row J, #03

West Chester Buzz / Jennifer Edwards Baker

…He grew up in West Chester, attending St. Michael School in Sharonville before continuing his private Catholic school education at Moeller in Montgomery.

After Moeller, he worked as a kitchen manager at Manor House in Mason and enrolled in Cincinnati State and Technical Community College, where he attended culinary school, his mother said.

But a year later, he still felt his life was missing something, so he joined the Marines. Like his younger brother, Sgt. Huling also was inspired to serve his country in light of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, his mother said.

“He just out of the blue surprised us,” his mother recalled. “He wanted to join the service to have more discipline and also to serve his country. I am so proud of what he became, what he stood for, what he endured.”…

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Wood: Osage Orange (Hedge Apple)