Rev. Ralph Leslie Hughs, 84, died Jan. 19, 2000, at the Bethany Care Center.
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Funeral services for Rev. Ralph Hughs, formerly of Gallatin, were held Saturday, Jan. 22, 2000, at Bram Funeral Home in Gallatin. Burial was at Brown Cemetery, Gallatin. Memorials may be made to the Olive Baptist Church, Gallatin, or the Immanuel Baptist Church, Bethany, in care of the funeral home.
Ralph Leslie Hughs, 84, Bethany, died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000, at the Bethany Care Center.
Rev. Hughs was born and raised at Coffey and graduated from its high school. He spent most of his life in Daviess County. Rev. Hughs attended William Jewell College at Liberty, and graduated from the Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar. He did further college studies at the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.
Rev. Hughs was an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention. He served as pastor for a number of churches, in particular the Pilot Grove #1 & #2 Baptist Churches, Jamesport, for almost 13 years, and retired in 1989 as pastor at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Bethany. Rev. Hughs also served as the Interim Association Minister in Daviess & Harrison Counties with offices in Jamesport. He also was a tractor mechanic and operated his own shop in Jameson and Coffey.
On Dec. 8, 1935, he married Lillian Plummer at Gallatin. She died in October 1985. He married Fae Collins Wooderson on May 11, 1986, at Bethany. She survives of the home.
Rev. Hughs was also preceded in death by one sister, Lola Drysdale Slagle; and one grandson, Jacob Hughs.
Other survivors include two sons, Connie, King City, Joe David, Osage City, Kan.; three daughters, Norma Fletcher and Beverly Berry, both of Gallatin, and Sondra Knecht, Cameron; two stepsons, John Wooderson, Blue Springs, and Ed Wooderson, Bethany; 20 grandchildren; eight step grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 10 step great-grandchildren.