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Show Services held here for A. B. Hughes Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the Third-Ninth Ward Chapel, for Alfred Bailey Hughes, 71, 191 West Center, who died Thursday, Thurs-day, Feb. 29, 1968, at Payson Hospital of a long illness. Bishop Bish-op T. Melvin Haymond of the Ninth Ward, presided at the services. Burial was in the Spanish Fork City Cemetery, directed by Wheeler Mortuary. Mr. Hughes was born Feb. 18, 1897, in Spanish Fork, a son of Alfred and Caroline C. Nielsen Hughes. He married Lois Sumsion of Springville on June 19, 1918, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mr. Hughes returned to Utah in 1966 after making his home in Los Angeles, Calif., for 44 years. He was an active member mem-ber of the LDS Church, holding the office of high priest. He was an ordained temple worker in the Los Angeles LDS Temple Tem-ple and had served a mission in Great Britain from 1952 to 1954. He received the Master A. Bailey Hughes, 71, for whom services were held Sat. M Men award in 1955, and had served three stake missions. He had been a teacher in all organizations or-ganizations of the church, and was first president of the 248th Quorum of Seventies, 10 years. Mr. Hughes had been a security se-curity officer for the Los Angeles An-geles Board of Education. Surviving are his widow of Springville; three children, Mrs. John J. (Marian) Hender-shot, Hender-shot, Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. Eliot A. (Anna Mae) Butler, Provo, and Capt. Delano B. Hughes, Salt ,Lake City; 15 grandchildren; five great grandchildren; a brother and sister, Joseph B. Hughes and Mrs. Arthur C. (Gwenetta) Messner, both of Salt Lake City. |