Obit of Hughey, Emmitt Harley - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 5 April 1998

Emmitt Harley Hughey

GUYMON, Okla. - Emmitt Harley Hughey, 79, died Thursday, April 2, 1998.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. today in the Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home with 
the Rev. John Godby of Grace Southern Baptist Church officiating. Burial 
will be in Elmhurst Cemetery.

Mr. Hughey was born in Hardesty and attended school there. He worked with 
the Civilian Conservation Corps with the WPA where he helped build the 
Fort Supply dam, the gas plant at Optima and the road between Woodward and 
Guymon. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.

In 1949, Mr. Hughey moved to Guymon from Hooker. He was a printer with the 
Guymon Daily Herald and retired from the paper in 1985. He was a member of 
No Man's Land Senior Citizens Center.
He married Helen Olga Shields in 1940 at Amarillo. She died in 1992.

Survivors include his sons, J. Hughey of Bartlesville and Lloyd Burton of 
Weatherford; a brother, Stanley McKinley of Hooker; five grandchildren; 
and 11 great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to No Man's Land Senior Citizens Center 
which may be left at Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home, Box 1112, Guymon, Okla., 
73942.
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