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Richard Velmar Hughes - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, December 1966

Funeral Services Held Saturday for R. V. Hughes

Funeral services for Richard Velmar Hughes, 72, who died last Friday at a Vicksburg hospital
after a short illness were held at 10 a. m. last Saturday at the Chapel of Crothers' Funeral Home. 

Services were conducted by the Rev. John Hurt. Burial followed n in Silver Cross cemetery under the 
direction of Crothers' Funeral Home.

Mr. Hughes had resided in Tallulah for the past 27 years, was a native of Smith County, Miss. 
He was a retired foreman of the Chicago Mill Lumber Co.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Sally Hughes, Tallulah; two sons, Jack Hughes, Greenwood, Miss.; 
W. L. Hughes, Dallas, Texas, one daughter, Mrs. Jack Byrom,  Memphis, Tenn; nine grandchildren and 
one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were Don Belott, J.  T. McClure, O. D. Creed, Martin  Pemberton, Roy McCaa and J. B.  McKnight.