RONALD "RON" HUGHES

Graveside services for Ronald "Ron" Hughes, 69, of Kilgore will be held Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, at Tyler Memorial Cemetery with the Rev.David Hampton officiating. Mr. Hughes died Friday, Jan. 2, in Longview.

Mr. Hughes was born in Dooley County, Ga., on April 7, 1939, to Wesley Lane and Hattie Ione Hughes. He graduated from Vienna High School in Vienna, Ga., and Bellevue College in Bellevue, Neb. He served his country honorably in the U.S. Air Force from 1956 to 1979. He later served as a golf course superintendent at local golf courses, among them Meadowbrook Country Club in Kilgore and Shallow Creek Country Club in Liberty City.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Sybil Hughes, the mother of his children.

Survivors include his wife Mary Lou of Kilgore; three children, Michael Hughes and wife Sherri of Fate, Cindie Bragg and husband Mike of Bristol, Va., and Russell Hughes and wife Amy of Desoto, Kan.; seven grandchildren; two brothers and their spouses, Doug and Joan Hughes of Sharpsburg, Ga., and Steve and Sara Hughes of Cordele, Ga.; and a sister, Brenda Hughes of Macon, Ga.

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