Robert Hughes

Bro. Robert Wilson “Boke” Hughes, Age 87 of Carthage, TN passed away Saturday, April 21, 2012 at Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage, TN.Bro. Hughes was born October 13, 1924 in South Carthage, TN the son of the late Ernest Lincoln Hughes and Lillian Edna Gibbs. He was also preceded in death by a Son; Randall Lincoln Hughes and Seven Siblings; Ernest, Sam, Charlie, Fite Reed, Harlan, John Wesley, and Marie Hughes. He entered in the US Army on April 8, 1943 spending two years and nineteen days overseas. He served doing ground combat in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe. He received the EAME ribbon with six bronze stars and a good conduct medal. He later served as a radar operator and was promoted to sergeant. He arrived on Omaha Beach six days after D-Day. He always said his best education was serving in the Army during World War II. After leaving the Military in October of 1945, he was a truck driver having drove for I.B. Brooks, Super Service and later Time DC. Bro. Hughes was saved at the age of 13 and called into the ministry in 1956. He preached his first of many sermons in August of 1958 at South Carthage Missionary Baptist Church where he is still a member.Bro. Hughes is survived by his wife of 65 years; Maggie Gibbs Hughes of Carthage, TN. Two children; Judy Hughes (Bobby) Sircy of Elmwood, TN and Retta Hughes (Royal) Howard of Gordonsville, TN. Four grandchildren; Jeff (Amanda) Owen of Rock City, TN, Kyle Owen of Lock Seven, TN, Amanda Kennedy of South Carthage, TN, and Andrew (Keisha) Kennedy of Cookeville, TN. Three Great Grandchildren; Turner and Adalyn Owen of Rock City, TN and Mason Holladay of South Carthage, TN.Funeral Services for Bro. Hughes are scheduled for Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 2PM at the Carthage Chapel of Bass Funeral Homes. Bro. James “Pee-Wee” Massey, Bro. Glenn Gibbs, and Bro. James Thomas Gibbs will officiate and Interment will follow in the Ridgewood Cemetery.Visitation with the Hughes Family will be at the Carthage Chapel of Bass Funeral Homes on Monday from 12 Noon to 8 PM and on Tuesday from 11 AM until service time at 2PM.The Hughes family request that memorials be made to the South Carthage Missionary Baptist Church.

Robert Hughes

October 13, 1924 - April 21, 2012