Reece E. "Skip" Hughes
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Norma Dean Carpenter
Burial Details
Obituaries
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Death Notice - May 22, 2014
Reece “Skip” Hughes, 75, Grand Junction, died May 19, 2014,
at Hope West Hospice.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Callahan-Edfast
Mortuary. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian
Church, followed by burial at 1 p.m. at New Elmwood Cemetery
in Fruita.
Mr. Hughes was a computer manager in banking/mining.
Survivors include his wife, Norma D.; two sons, Tab and Randy,
both of Grand Junction; one daughter, Nicole Lee of Grand Junction;
seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to Hope West, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand
Junction 81506, or to the Roice-Hurst Humane Society, P.O. Box
4040, Grand Junction 81502.
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 D Obituary - May 25, 2014
Skip passed away after a lengthy
illness at HopeWest Hospice on
May 19, 2014. He was 75 years
old.
Skip was born June 29, 1938,
at Colorado General Hospital in
Denver, Colorado to Eugene and
Loretta Hughes. The family lived
in Denver for the first five years of
his life, then moved to Louviers, Colorado, where his Dad worked for
E.I. Dupont. The family resided in Louviers for a number of years,
where indeed it was a great experience to be raised in a fully contained
company village. He attended first through eighth grade at the Louviers
school.
Skip graduated Douglas County High School in 1956, where he was
active in all three of the major sports. When he was a junior in high
school, he met the love of his life, Norma Dean Carpenter. They were
married after graduating from high school.
He worked at Dupont while attending night school and later started
working in the Data Processing Industry. He held many management
positions for banks, hospitals, and the Uranium Industry. He was at
one time known as the Mayor of Ticaboo, Utah, and was in the Army
National Guard Reserves for 17 years.
The family moved to Grand Junction in January of 1978, and have
resided there since.
Skip was a 15 year member of the Redlands Lions Club, where he was
past President. He received two Lion of the Year awards, along with the
Melvin Jones award, the highest award given in Lions. He was also a
six year member of the JUCO committee.
Skip is survived by his wife, Norma; children, Tab Hughes, Randy
Hughes, and Nicole (Shane) Lee, all residing in Grand Junction. He is
also survived by seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, as
well as sister-in-law, Phyllis Clinger of Parker, Colorado.
He is preceded in death by parents, Eugene and Loretta Hughes; sister,
Jacqueline Hall; brother-in-law, John A. Carpenter Jr, and mother and
father-in-law, John A. and Lola Carpenter.
A visitation will be held Tuesday, May 27th at Callahan-Edfast from
4 – 8:00 p.m. Services will be held on Wednesday, May 28th, at 11:00
a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 3940 27 ½ Road, Grand Junction,
CO 81506. Burial will take place at New Elmwood Cemetery in
Fruita at 2:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Roice
Hurst Humane Society, 362 28 Road, Grand Junction, CO or HopeWest
Hospice of Grand Junction.
