Obituaries: Otto Hughes, Sr., 1967, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 22, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Otto Hughes, 69, Former Winn Resident, Dies

Otto Hughes, Sr., 69, of Pineville, died at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 17, 1967
in Baptist Hospital.

A native of Winn Parish, Hughes attended the Baptist Bible Institute in New
Orleans from 1919 to 1922, then pastored churches in Winn and Grant Parishes
for 25 years.  For the past 17 years he was employed in the maintenance
division of Billups Oil Co.

Funeral services were held Monday in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral
Home in Alexandria under direction of Dr. R. Houston Smith of the First
Baptist Church of Pineville.  Burial followed in Zion Hill Cemetery near
Winnfield.

Hughes is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lurah Boyett Hughes of Pineville; one
daughter, Miss Naomi Dale Hughes of Washington, D. C.; two sons, Lt. Col. John
D. Hughes (ret.) Of Indialantic, Fla., and Otto L. Hughes, Jr., of Lafayette;
one sister, Mrs. Laura Pace of Jonesboro; three brothers, Frank Hughes of
Bastrop, and Silas Hughes and Ernest Hughes, both of Shreveport, and seven
grandchildren.