Mildred Sims Huff (born June 11, 1919) was the eighth of ten children. She had eight sisters and one brother. Huff attended high school in Sevierville and placed second in a Miss Sevierville beauty contest. Following the contest, Huff recalled, "One of the judges told me later if I had smiled I would have won." As a result of her shyness, Huff was too afraid to borrow money to attend college. Instead, Huff took a job as a cashier in a restaurant in Knoxville. In Knoxville, Huff met her future husband Clint, an employee of the State Highway Patrol in the Driver's License Division, a divorcee, and father of a young son. After a courtship of more than a year, Clint and Mildred were married in Loudon, Tennessee on June 4, 1940. On Mildred's twenty-second birthday, June 11, 1941, she gave birth to her first child Phyllis. On April 7, 1942, Clint and Mildred moved their family to California, where Clint began to work for his brother Omer. Two years later, Huff returned to East Tennessee when Clint received his draft notice to report to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia for a physical prior to introduction to service in World War II. However, a ruptured blood vessel in Clint's eye prevented him from being accepted into the United States military. The Huff's returned to Knoxville where Clint resumed his job with the State Highway Patrol. Clint's job continued to make Mildred uneasy throughout her life. He faced death on two occasions during his police career when he was caught in the middle of a shoot out between police officers and moonshiners and when a suspect in the back of his patrol car came at him with a knife. Huff died on January 12th, 2006 and is buried in the Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee with her husband.