Obit: Mrs. Roxie Ann Brooks Hughes, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 




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The Ruston Daily Leader - Tuesday, February 11, 1992

	MRS. ROXIE ANN BROOKS HUGHES

RUSTON, LA. - Services for Mrs. Roxie Ann Brooks Hughes, 56, of Ruston were 
held at 2 P.M. Saturday, February 8, 1992 at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel 
in Ruston, with Rev. O. W. Lynch and Rev. Walter Parr officiating. Burial 
was in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery, near Ruston, La.

Mrs. Hughes died Friday, February 7, 1992 at Lincoln General Hospital in 
Ruston, after a brief illness.

Mrs. Hughes was born on December 21, 1935 in Ruston, Louisiana. She was a 
member of the Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, where she served as 
Sunday School teacher for many years; She also served on the administrative 
board of the church and held various other positions. She was a member of 
the United Methodist Women's Organization. 

She was preceded in death by her father, Clyde Brooks who was born on 
December 14, 1915 and died on July 14, 1984 Burial was in Wesley Chapel
 Cemetery near Ruston.

Survivors include her husband Willie B. Hughes, Sr. of Ruston; mother, 
Ola (Voree Hinton) Brooks of Ruston; daughter, Sharon "Susie" Hughes of 
Ruston; son, Willie B. "Billy" Hughes, Jr. of Ruston; sister, Peggy 
Grigsby of Ruston; brother, James Brooks of Ruston; three grandchildren, 
Jamie Hughes, Christopher Hughes, and  Amanda Hughes, and several nieces and nephews.