Obit for HUGHES, Jay (b.1893 d.1944), Nicollet Co., MN

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JAY HUGHES

December 15, 1890-November  17 , 1944



OBITUARY, Le Sueur News-Herald, Wednesday, November 22, 1944

"JAY HUGHES DIED FRIDAY IN HOSPITAL



This community was saddened last Friday when it learned that one of its 

former townsmen, Jay Hughes, had passed away that morning at the Veterans 

Hospital, St. Paul, where he had been a patient for some weeks.



Jay Hughes was born in Lake Prairie township on December 15, 1893, the 

son of Thomas and Mary Hughes. He attended the rural school of that 

community and later St. Ann's school , where he graduated from the 

commercial department. He served with the navy in World War I, and was a 

member of the local American Legion post. Following the war he served as 

salesman for the Eagle Roller Mills, New Ulm, and before his illness for 

the ???rdy Salt Co. of Kansas City. He leaves to mourn his loss his wife, 

Emma and a son, Gene, six sisters and two brothers, Kate and James of Le 

Sueur; George and Elizabeth of Mankato, Mrs. Rose Kiley, of Minneapolis, 

Mrs. Mabel Wick, of Cumberlin, Wisconsin; Mrs. Bea Rice of Breckenridge 

and Mrs. Margaret Louden, of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Funeral services 

were conducted in Minneapolis on Monday morning from the Church of Holy 

???, and interment was in the National Cemetery at Fort Snelling. 



Le Sueur Legion men served as pallbearers. They were Joseph Schwob, James 

Coleman, Leonard Wieland, John Peterson, Joseph Rudin and Walter 

Schwartz.



Attending the funeral from Le Sueur were James Morgan, Robert Florine, 

Mrs. Ben McCue, Mrs. Bloss of Shakopee, Mrs. Frank Hughes and Statia 

Sheehan of St. Peter, Thomas Shea, Joseph Fay and Mr. and Mrs. James 

Coleman."

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