Abilene Reporter October 29, 1998
William Alfred 'Al' Hughes
William Alfred "Al" Hughes, 88, died Tuesday in a local care center.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today in Elmwood Memorial Park with Dermott Thiel officiating, directed by North's Funeral Home, 4002 Buffalo Gap Road.
Mr. Hughes was born in Oklahoma, where he grew up, and began working, at a young age, as a baker and on a railroad construction bridge crew. He moved to Abilene in 1950 and opened Hughes Diesel Service, of which he remained in management until 1985. He was a member of Breakfast Optimist Club and was the widower of Mary Lena Prickett Hughes, whom he married in 1933 in San Angelo.
Survivors include one son, W. Terry Hughes of Elm Valley; one daughter, Mona O. Dennis of Houston; one sister, Naomi Alcorn of Plainview; one brother, Ernest Aldridge of Apple Valley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to Hendrick Hospice Care, P.O. Box 1922, Abilene 79604.
William Alfred 'Al' Hughes
William Alfred "Al" Hughes, 88, died Tuesday in a local care center.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today in Elmwood Memorial Park with Dermott Thiel officiating, directed by North's Funeral Home, 4002 Buffalo Gap Road.
Mr. Hughes was born in Oklahoma, where he grew up, and began working, at a young age, as a baker and on a railroad construction bridge crew. He moved to Abilene in 1950 and opened Hughes Diesel Service, of which he remained in management until 1985. He was a member of Breakfast Optimist Club and was the widower of Mary Lena Prickett Hughes, whom he married in 1933 in San Angelo.
Survivors include one son, W. Terry Hughes of Elm Valley; one daughter, Mona O. Dennis of Houston; one sister, Naomi Alcorn of Plainview; one brother, Ernest Aldridge of Apple Valley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to Hendrick Hospice Care, P.O. Box 1922, Abilene 79604.
Abilene Reporter October 29, 1998
William Alfred 'Al' Hughes
William Alfred "Al" Hughes, 88, died Tuesday in a local care center.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today in Elmwood Memorial Park with Dermott Thiel officiating, directed by North's Funeral Home, 4002 Buffalo Gap Road.
Mr. Hughes was born in Oklahoma, where he grew up, and began working, at a young age, as a baker and on a railroad construction bridge crew. He moved to Abilene in 1950 and opened Hughes Diesel Service, of which he remained in management until 1985. He was a member of Breakfast Optimist Club and was the widower of Mary Lena Prickett Hughes, whom he married in 1933 in San Angelo.
Survivors include one son, W. Terry Hughes of Elm Valley; one daughter, Mona O. Dennis of Houston; one sister, Naomi Alcorn of Plainview; one brother, Ernest Aldridge of Apple Valley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to Hendrick Hospice Care, P.O. Box 1922, Abilene 79604.
William Alfred 'Al' Hughes
William Alfred "Al" Hughes, 88, died Tuesday in a local care center.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today in Elmwood Memorial Park with Dermott Thiel officiating, directed by North's Funeral Home, 4002 Buffalo Gap Road.
Mr. Hughes was born in Oklahoma, where he grew up, and began working, at a young age, as a baker and on a railroad construction bridge crew. He moved to Abilene in 1950 and opened Hughes Diesel Service, of which he remained in management until 1985. He was a member of Breakfast Optimist Club and was the widower of Mary Lena Prickett Hughes, whom he married in 1933 in San Angelo.
Survivors include one son, W. Terry Hughes of Elm Valley; one daughter, Mona O. Dennis of Houston; one sister, Naomi Alcorn of Plainview; one brother, Ernest Aldridge of Apple Valley, Calif.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to Hendrick Hospice Care, P.O. Box 1922, Abilene 79604.
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