Kentucky- Magoffin County native, Larry Flynt, best known for publishing Hustler Magazine and being a freedom of speech activist, returned home Wednesday of last week for his father’s funeral.

World War II Veteran Larry “Claxton” Flynt died of natural causes on July 1st and was buried in Magoffin County.

His sons Larry and Jimmy Flynt talked to us about their father’s influence in their lives.

Sitting in his gold wheelchair, multimillionaire Larry Flynt, hasn’t forgotten his roots or the wisdom of his father, Larry Claxton Flynt who has now passed on.

“I don’t think he ever really lost the wisdom he was born with here in the hills of eastern Kentucky,” Flynt said.

As a freedom of speech activist and the owner of Hustler, Larry Flynt has gained fame from his liberal lifestyle and along his road to success, Flynt says his dad’s sayings, what he likes to call, Flyntisms, have been a big influence in his life.

“I always looked at those lines as Hillbilly Shakespeare and another saying was, you’ll never know how much money or how much heart a man has because they both stay well hidden,” Flynt said.

Taps rang out along with a 21 gun salute in honor of Larry Claxton Flynt, a World War II veteran and it’s that honor that his son Jimmy Flynt is proud to remember most.

“Just remember that he is truly part of the great generation and he earned a lot of medals in the war and that’s the way that I like to remember him,” Jimmy Flynt said.

Larry Claxton Flynt died at the age of 85. Larry Claxton Flynt died less than one week after his wife..