Ex-City Commissioner Vern R. Huck
Vern R. Huck, a building contractor who for 10 years served on three separate city commissions during the administration of Mayor Sam Yorty, died Wednesday in a Glendale hospital. The former parking, public utilities and transportation and building and safety commissioner was 76.
Huck, who also headed the Los Angeles Spastic Children’s Foundation for many years, entered the construction industry here in 1932.
In 1955 he was chosen Builder of the Year by the Building Contractors Assn. of California, of which he was a former president.
He is survived by his wife, Marion, and two sisters.
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