Lonn Edwin Huntington

Lonn Edwin Huntington went peacefully home to the Lord on August 3, 2025. He was born on September 30, 1934, to Will and Clara Huntington in Rapid City, South Dakota, the youngest of seven boys. At the age of 12, he contracted polio and spent seven months in the hospital. With excellent treatment, he recovered well enough to walk, eventually making the basketball team his last two years of high school. In 1952, he joined the Marines, where he received training in electronics. The GI bill enabled him to attend college, starting at the University of Oklahoma.

When working summers as an assistant chef at Sylvan Lake in SD, he met Sylvia Bong. After the second summer at the lake, Lonn followed her to Brookings, where she attended college. They married in 1960, and he transferred to South Dakota State where he finished his Bachelor of Science in 1963. After they both taught high school for one year in Highmore SD, they moved to Hanford CA where he taught algebra, geometry, and honors Math. In 1973, he earned his master’s degree from Tulane University. While teaching, he also followed his passion for sports through bowling and by filming football games and wrestling meets and even coaching shotput and discus for track. He could often be found timing swim meets and, for 8 years, driving his sons’ water polo teams to away games.

On the cultural side, Lonn acted in Temple theater productions. As a tenor, he enjoyed interacting with others through music. He sang in barbershop groups, church choirs and played in the bell choir. For 14 years, he also sang with the Backyard Musicals in Hanford.

After retiring in 1992, Lonn joined Grant Myers to walk 4 miles each morning, with wives joining when they retired. Lonn also enjoyed driving people on medical visits out of town. He did math tutoring and two long-term sub jobs in calculus but refused to be involved in anything that involved meetings! Playing contract bridge also became a passion, even subbing often with a woman’s bridge club. He was also an active participant in Walk to Emmaus for over 20 years, after its strong renewal and strengthening of his Christian faith.

With his warm generous heart and a quirky sense of humor (with a penchant for puns), Lonn had a gift for making new friends and valuing his old ones.

Lonn is survived by his wife Sylvia, his children and spouses (Michael & Laura Huntington, Steven & Suzanne Huntington and bonus son Robert Schorr), five grandchildren (Nathan Gray, Curtis Gray, Jared Schorr, Alyssa (Schorr) Gick, and Eileen Schorr Watson), seven great-grandchildren (Violet, Lily and Rose Gray, Jaiden and Rhlyn Gick, Will and Eloise Schorr) and his brother David Boyd Huntington.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Saturday September 6 at 2 PM at the Lemoore Presbyterian Church (260 ‘B’ St.)

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in his memory to Kings Gospel Mission or Lemoore Presbyterian Church.