PUFFER, Clayton Linville

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WWII Veteran, US Navy, Fireman First Class

He was known as "Puffer Puffer" and was a semi-popular race car driver having entered the Indy 500 in 1952. He did not start the race. There was no record of Puffer even qualifying for the event, so there is some doubt if the driver was ever really on the starting grid.

He ran speed trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1950 and pushed his car, The City of Pasadena, to over 200 MPH before it went airborne and crashed. He survived with just cuts and bruises.

FindaGrave:
GRID=3842549 Sect. 7, Site 44

FindaGrave:
GRID=3842549 Sect. 7, Site 44

Buried:
Section 7, Site 44

Family/Spouse: HOBBS, Nellie. Nellie (daughter of HOBBS, Irby O. and Bertha M.) was born in 1923 in Henderson, NV; died on 1 Jun 1969 in NV; was buried in Las Vegas, NV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: SHUMAKER, Beulah Alice. Beulah (daughter of SHUMAKER, Albert and CURL, Sarah Susan) was born on 6 Jul 1915 in MO; died on 14 Sep 1985 in Las Vegas, NV; was buried in Las Vegas, NV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clayton married VIALL, Ellen Jane on 8 Feb 1940 in Sheridan, MT. Ellen (daughter of VIALL, Joseph and WEYRAUCH, La Vinea) was born on 5 Jan 1923 in Williams, ND; died on 8 Dec 1994. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clayton married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clayton married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]