Phillips County CO Archives Obituaries.....Hughes, Victor Napolean March 21, 1973
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Holyoke Enterprise. 5-24-1973
VICTOR HUGHES RITES MAY 21

Funeral services were held Monday, May 21, 1973, from the Holyoke Church of the 

Nazarene, for Victor N. Hughes, 82, who passed away May 18, at Melissa Memorial 

Hospital, Holyoke.

Rev. Clyde Vandegrift officiated at the services. Interment was in Holyoke 

Memorial Park. Thompson Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.

Victor N. Hughes was born April 10, 1889 in Sutton, West Virginia. He was the 

oldest of 12 children. He moved with his family to Imperial, Nebraska in 

February 1904.

At the age of 21, Victor homesteaded a ranch four miles north of what was then 

called Alvin. This was his home for 36 years.

He was united in marriage to Nellie F. Forbes in 1919 and they moved to Holyoke 

in 1946 due to his poor health.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Marshall L. and Lydia Hughes; three 

brothers, Earl Milton, Herbert Wheaton and Grant.

He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Trulie E. Hattaway, Kansas City, 

Missouri and Nellie M. Harding, Holyoke; two brothers, Sheridan, Yakama, 

Washington and Hobart, Nampa, Idaho; five sisters, Mary Sheldon, Holyoke, 

Bertie Edwards, Olive Older, Rutia Traxler and Ocie Bromagen, Nampa, Idaho, and 

Elsie Sheldon, Lindsay, California, and many other relatives and friends.

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