Jasper-Jackson-Greene County MO Archives Biographies.....HOUGH(Boggess), Edith August 15, 1906 - February 13, 1996 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill BOGGESS billboggess@webtv.net December 22, 2007, 11:40 pm Author: William Samuel BOGGESS newspaper and date unknown           EDITH (BOGGESS) HOUGH   Edith was a graduate of Springfield Teachers College in Missouri. She taught school in Carthage and at an American school in the Philippines, where she accompanied her husband to an agency for International Development assignment. They also lived in Korea and Japan. She was a resident of Chevy Chase, and had lived in the Washington area off and on since 1938. A Girl Scout leader: a volunteer with the Common Cause; and member of River Road Unitarian Church; the P.E.O. philanthropic organization; the Foreign Service Wives Association; and the Chevy Chase Women's Club.             ~~   ~~   ~~   ~~   ~~         Additional Comments:    Edith Boggess, I1059, was fourth born, second to adulthood, to Samuel Cleveland Boggess (1874WV-1946MN) and Kate Knight (1876ENG-1928MO) in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, 15 August 1906. She lost her mother and sister-in-law within fourteen hours while at the University of Missouri. April 1928. Edith returned home to become the women of the house for her father and younger brother S C, jr (1911MO-1994FL), plus her older brother Luke (1899MO-1974MO) and his two young sons, my brother and I, until1932.     She was married 24 August 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado to Edwin Albert Hough (1908LA-1995MD) s/o Walter Martin Hough (1886MO-1932LA) and Adele Ziegler (1888MO-1918MO). They had one daughter, Jane Ellen, who had one son, Gianmarco Leoncavallo. Edwin and Edith last lived in Chevy Chase, Montgomery county, Maryland, and died in Sibley Memorial hospital of Washington, D C, he 9 April 1995 she 13 February1996.     Daughter saw their cermains were buried in the Hough plot at Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri. <>----------<>----------<> http://files.usgwarchives.org/mo/jasper/obits/h/hough17ob.txt newspaper and date 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 (1888MO-1918MO) and Walter Martin Hough (1886MO-1932LA) in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.. He married Edith Boggess (1906MO-1996MD) 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". File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/jasper/bios/houghbog9bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mofiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb