‘Is that him, mommy?’

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‘Is that him, mommy?’

Willmar woman recalls her encounter with Howard Hughes By Scott Thoma Not many people can say they got close enough to the reclusive Howard Hughes to touch him, but Sandy Pierce of Willmar can. “I leaned over and tapped (Hughes) on the shoulder and said, “Is that him, mommy?” Pierce recalls her parents telling her the story later in life. Pierce, who was four years old at the time, was being held by one of her parents among a large crowd of Hugh…