Extracted from The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Sunday, February 25, 1968

LURAH B. HUGHES

Lurah B. Hughes, 69, of 519 Main St., Pineville, died at 8:10 a.m. Saturday in an Alexandria hospital.

Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Hixson Bros. Funeral Home with Rev. R. Houston Smith officiating. Burial will be in Zion Hill cemetery near Winnfield.

She is survived by two sons, Lt. Col. John D. Hughes, retired, of Indialantic, Fla. and Otto L. Hughes Jr. of Lafayette; a daughter, Naomi D. Hughes of Washington, D. C.; four brothers, Morris J. Boyett of Beaumont, Tex., Houston A. Boyett of Shreveport; Huborn D. Boyett of Winnfield and Virgil L. Boyett of Starks; three sisters, Leona Creel of Joyce, Oma O. Blalock of Lake Charles, and Joy Bell Richard of Shreveport; her mother, Ida Boyett of Winnfield, and seven grandchildren.