Obituary-The Neligh News-February 22, 1962

OLIVE ADAMS HUGHES

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Church of Christ at Oakdale for Mrs Olive HUGHES of Meridian, Idaho, former Oakdale resident, with the Rev. Dale WILLIAMSON of Lexington and Alvin SCHWARTING, pastor at Oakdale in charge. Interment will be in the Oakdale Cemetery. Olive HUGHES was born to William and Jane ADAMS on September 29, 1901 on a farm west of Oakdale and died February 18, 1962 at Meridian at the age of 60 years, 5 months and 19 days. She was united in marriage to William HUGHES at Neligh in 1917 and to this union six children, five boys and one girl, were born. The couple lived most of their married life in the Oakdale community. After his death she moved to Meridian to make her home. Survivors are four sons, Dean of Neligh, Billy of Portland, Oregon, Neil of the U. S. Marine Corps, Kenneth in the U. S. Navy, stationed at Vallejo, California, one daughter, Marion FOSHER of Lusk, Wyoming, her mother, Mrs Jane ADAMS of Oakdale, five brothers, Enos of Neligh, Lawrence of South Gate, California, Clifford of Los Angeles, California, John of Gardena, California, Victor of Bellingham, Washington, and 15 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and one son, Floyd, who died while a missionary in the Bahama Islands.

Obituary - The Oakdale Sentinel, Thursday, June 5, 1947

William Alexander HUGHES

William Alexander Hughes was born March 26, 1897, in Bussy, Iowa, and passed away at his home in Oakdale on May 28, 1947, at the age of fifty-one years, two months and two days. In 1917 he was united in marriage to Olive Adams of Oakdale and had spent most of his married life in and around Oakdale. Surviving him besides his wife are five sons and one daughter, Floyd Hughes of Eugene, Or., Dean of Neligh, Billy of San Jose, Ca., Neal in the Marines in San Diego, Ca., and Marion and Kenneth at home; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Anderson of Billings, Mont., and Mrs. Sylvia Hoskins of North Hollywood, Ca.; several nieces and nephews and other relatives. He was buried in Christian Baptism last summer.

The past four months he had suffered intensely but bore the pain without complaint. A. C. Utterbach of the Neligh church conducted funeral services at the Church of Christ Saturday afternoon. Burial was made in the Oakdale Cemetery.