Montgomery County MD Archives Obituaries.....Edwin Albert HOUGH, April 9, 1995 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 January 14, 2009, 2:01 pm newspaper unknown EDWIN ALBERT HOUGH AID Official Edwin Albert Hough, 86, an official with the Agency for International Development who retired in 1970 as chief of agency's Burma desk, died of congestive heart failure April 9 at Sibley Memorial Hospital, He lived in Chevy Chase. Mr Hough was born in Carthage, Mo., and graduated from the university of Missouri. During the early 1930s, he worked in advertising and real estate in Kansas City, Mo., and New York. He also hunted and fished in Alberta, Canada. In 1939, he moved to Washington and worked for the Farm Security Administration as a specialist in price controls. He served in the Navy [at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier County, Florida, where the fishermen used their vessels to seek German submarines in Gulf of Mexico, so he said in 1980s while lunching there] in the Pacific during the final months of World War II. After the war, he worked in Korea and Japan as a civilian economist with U S military forces. He returned to Washington in 1952 to work for the Office of Price Stabilization; in 1954, he joined the agency that later became AID and was posted in Manila. He came back to Washington in 1956 as desk officer for Cambodia and served in that capacity for years. In retirement, he traveled extensively. Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Edith Boggess Hough, and a daughter, Jane Ellen Hough, both of Chevy Chase; and a grandchild. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Additional Comments: Edwin was born 23 Sep 1908 to Adele Ziegler and Walter Martin Hough in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.. He married Edith Boggess of Carthage in Manitou Springs, Colorado 24 August 1935. They had one daughter Jane Ellen who in turn had one son, Gianmarco Leoncavallo. Edith passed away from a stroke the following 13 February 1996, at same hospital in Washington DC. Daughter Jane arranged and oversaw their cermains buried in Block 32, Lot 174 of Park cemetery, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri 13 May1996. Edwin inherited five Frederic Remington (1861-1909) www.spanamwar.com/remington.htm pieces of art directly from his grandmother, work done by Frederic while he lived with Edwin's grandparents, Franklin and "Nellie" Hough in Kansas City sometime between 1883 and 1888. Edwin had Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City maintain these fine pieces of art, who in turn featured them on occasions for public viewing, and where I viewed them, with interested friends, at a private viewing in 1981. Upon his death they passed to his only daughter who has disposed of four, keeping only the small picture of the families "ole swayed back horse". This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb Last Updated: 4/12/2009 This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/montgomery/obits/hough-ea.txt