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Elmer J. Humann (Al) passed away peacefully on Dec. 24, 2020, at 12:20 p.m. He was born to John Conrad and Esther Martha Humann on March 16, 1934, on a farm near Leola, South Dakota.

He graduated from high school in Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1953 and in the fall of that year enlisted in the USMC. He served in Korea and Okinawa as a radio operator and was honorably discharged in September 1956.

Al was hired by Boeing, which brought him to Seattle. He met Florence Margaret Jackson in 1957 and walked down the aisle October of that same year. He held a variety of jobs, including driving buses...