HUGHES, Andrew Anthony 1873-1942

HUGHES, KIRK, BARNES, PETERSON, BROWN, COTANT

Posted By: Dick Offerman (email)
Date: 2/8/2008 at 10:18:58

Andrew Anthony Hughes,
Died October 13, 1942

Andrew Anthony Hughes
New Hampton Citizen
Died October 13

Andrew A. Hughes, New Hampton business man, died at Saint Joseph’s Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, October 13, 1942, after a long illness from heart trouble.

Mr. Hughes was born in Cresco, Iowa, April 6, 1873, son of William and Catherine McAndrew Hughes, and came to New Hampton with his parents in 1886, and this city has been his home since then.

He married Nellie Kirk at Lawler on April 18, 1899, and she survives him. Nine children were born of this marriage, four of whom preceded him in death. The deceased children were Kathleen, William, Leo and Harold. The five remaining children are four daughters and one son. They are Mrs. Kenneth Barnes (Olive) of Cresco, Mrs. Charles Peterson (Helen), Rosemary, Josephine and Patrick Hughes of this city. Besides these, three grandchildren survive, Patrick Barnes and Gary and Joan Hughes. Also surviving are two sisters and one brother, Mrs. W. S. Brown, Mrs. B. W. Cotant and James Hughes, all of Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Funeral was held Friday from Saint Joseph’s church, with Father J. J. Leen officiating, assisted by the Rev. Hugh McManus and the Rev. Henry Kruft. Burial was in Mount Calvary Cemetery.

This writer had known Mr. Hughes, boy and man, for many years. He was a good business man, and had been in the coal business here for years, strictly on the square, dependable in every way. Mr. Hughes has been a prominent citizen of this city, employed or partner of men like Wing, Miller, Kenyon, Shaffer and David, and for nearly a half century in the same business. Honesty was his motto and he lived up to it. He was ever loyal to the town and the community, faithful to his wife and family, and all who were so fortunate as to call “Andy” their friend knew they had a real friend, a friend who always remained the same today, tomorrow and always.

His passing is a sad loss to the family whom he adored and tenderly guarded, and who loved and honored as good a husband and father as anyone ever had. His friends in this county were legion, among the children as well as the older folks. His has been a life of labor and usefulness, and at last the sinews of that once rugged frame had weakened, and the heart that had been so freely given to loved ones and friends, no longer could keep life’s blood flowing and, bidding farewell to loved ones and to life and all its joys and sorrows, he left this earth and started on that uncharted journey, leading to that “Beautiful Golden Somewhere,” implicitly trusting in the promise that a better life awaited him at the end of that journey. H. Z. B.

Source: New Hampton Tribune, October 1942