Largus Bryce Hughes

Services for longtime Oklahoma Cty resident, L. Bryce Hughes, 90, will be at 1:00 PM Graveside Service at Hewitt Cemetery in Wilson, Oklahoma Thursday December 6, 2007 with Army Ft. Sill Chaplain Officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Alexander Funeral Home in Wilson, OK

Largus Bryce, born in Marion Co., AL on Feb. 5, 1917, to Obe and Mamie (Howell) Hughes, became an Oklahoman at age 4 when Obe and his brothers went to work for the Texas Company in the Carter Co. oil fields. When Bryce wasn't shooting squirrels, swimming in the bayou, and otherwise running wild with his brothers, he was made to hoe the cotton patch and attend school. He attended Wilson High School, where he was a football, basketball, and track star. On Dec. 8, 1941, he went to Ardmore to enlist, and joined the Army Air Corps. A member of the 96th Squadron of the 82nd Fighter Group, he was a crew chief on a P-38 Lockheed Lightning crew and saw action in Italy and North Africa. After the war he worked at TAFB as an industrial engineering efficiency expert. He married Claudia Bess Brookes, and together they raised their children, Sharman, Patricia, and Linda, to understand the value of family. Bryce had a profound influence on his six grandchildren: Eva Foster; Adam, Alexis, and Daniel Lincoln; Lauren and John Barghols. With Paw Paw, there was always fishing, wiener roasts, and ice cream; there was always climbing up Isinglass Hill, exploring the ruins of Ambrose Ward school, and getting a malt at the Wilson drug store; there was always a bag of change to be split 6 ways; and there was always a Paw Paw at games, birthdays, Christmas, and ... well... there was just always Paw Paw. And where there was Paw Paw, there was comfort. He could grow pecans. He could make it rain pecans. He taught all of us how to hoe a row of cotton, even when it was too hot to go on. Bryce is a father, grandfather, teacher; he is a gentleman. Honest, fair, and inspiring, he showed us all how to work hard and how to man up. Bryce is preceded in death by his parents, his brothers, Drennen and Hollis Hughes, his sister, Ortice Singley, his wife Claudia Bess Brookes.

He is survived by his wife Margo, his daughters Sharman, Patty, and Linda; his grandchildren Eva Foster and her husband Jeremy Corff; Adam, Alexis, and Daniel Lincoln; Lauren and John Barghols; and his great-grandson Dylan Bryce Lincoln.

Pall bears will be Jeremy Corff, Adam Lincoln, John Barghols and Daniel Lincoln.

In Lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Lupus Foundation of American , 3131 N. MacArthur Blvd. Ste. 106B, Oklahoma City, 73122-1097.

Condolences by be sent to family at alexanderfuneralhome.org