Kay County OK Obit for: Lois Alleene (Patterson) Hughes 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/10/2003 
Transcribed from the Ponca City News, http://www.poncacitynews.com/
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Ponca City News 7-8-1996 

Lois Alleene Hughes

Lois Alleene (Patterson) Hughes, died Sunday, July 7, 1996, at the Ponca 
City Nursing Home in Ponca City. She was 87.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, in the Ponca City First Baptist 
Church Chapel with the Rev. James Swain and the Rev. Larry Heslip, officiating. 
Burial will be in the Rosemound Cemetery in Medford under the direction of 
Trout Funeral Home of Ponca City. 

Friends may call at the funeral home until 8:30 a.m., Tuesday.

Lois Alleene (Patterson) Hughes was born May 26, 1909, in Grandfield, the 
daughter of Francis "Frank" Grover and Elizabeth Cleopatra Patterson. 

She attended Oklahoma College for Woman in Chickasha and Southwestern 
Oklahoma College in Weatherford. 

She was selected as the first "Miss Oklahoma," in the state (then known as 
Miss Cotton Queen).

On July 19, 1930, she was married to James Robert "Bob" Hughes in Snyder 
and the couple moved with his construction career to eight states. 

At his retirement in 1975, the couple moved to Stillwater. 

After her husband's death in 1982, Mrs. Hughes moved to Medford, then to 
Ponca City in 1993. 

She enjoyed playing the piano, cooking, fishing, traveling, singing, reading 
the Bible, and spending time with friends and family.

Survivors include one son, Robert P. of Belton, Texas; two daughters, Linda Kay 
Hughes of Ponca City and Janet Johnson of Iron Mountain, Mich.; one sister, 
Bennie Russell of Perkins; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. 

In addition to her husband and parents she was preceded in death by one son, 
Austin Jerry.
Casket bearers will be grandsons, Bradley Patterson and James Henry "Bud" 
Hughes; nephews, Todd Smetana and Danny Kennedy; and Dean Coleman and Wallace 
Weaver. 

Honorary bearers will be grandsons, Stanton James Hughes and Adam Jay Hughes.
Memorial contributions may be made in Mrs. Hughes name to the Multiple 
Sclerosis Society, 9636 N. May Avenue, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73120.

The family will be at 808 E. Overbrook.
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