Obituary

Dorothy Alice Hughes

July 05, 1925 - April 20, 2021

Mrs. Dorothy Alice Hughes, age 95 and a resident of Kentwood, died at the Belle Maison Nursing Home in Hammond, LA on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

Graveside services will be held at 1:00 PM on Monday, April 26, 2021 at the Woodland Cemetery in Kentwood, Louisiana.  The Reverend Justin Craft will officiate. Burial will be in the Woodland Cemetery with Hartman-Jones Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Hughes was born July 5, 1925 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. She was the daughter of the late Marshall and Edna Furr Rester. She was a homemaker and a member of the Line Creek Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School.  She was also a member of the Ladies Art Guild. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 70 years, Redo “Jack” Henry Hughes and one brother and his wife, Clyde and Mary Rester.

Mrs. Hughes is survived by three sons, Jack D Hughes and wife, Mary C. of Kentwood, Louisiana; Paul M. Hughes and wife, Mary W. of Grand Junction, Colorado and Mark C. Hughes and wife, Dera H. of Kentwood, Louisiana;  six grandchildren,  J.D. Hughes and wife, Bridgette, Daniel Hughes and wife, Laura, Brandy Hughes, Mandy Hughes and husband, Marc Boren, Jeremy Hughes and wife, Jamie, and Elizabeth Cash and husband, Shane; nine great-grandchildren, Matthew, Madalynne, Parker, Annabel, Avery, Hannah-Kay, Hayden, Christopher and Cordelia.

Pallbearers will be Matthew Hughes, Parker Hughes, J.D. Hughes, Jeremy Hughes and Shane Cash.