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Rev. Ralph Leslie Hughs, 84, died Jan. 19, 2000, at the Bethany Care Center.

Funeral services for Rev. Ralph Hughs, formerly of Gallatin, were held Saturday, Jan. 22, 2000, at Bram Funeral Home in Gallatin. Burial was at Brown Cemetery, Gallatin. Memorials may be made to the Olive Baptist Church, Gallatin, or the Immanuel Baptist Church, Bethany, in care of the funeral home.
Ralph Leslie Hughs, 84, Bethany, died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000, at the Bethany Care Center.

Rev. Hughs was born and raised at Coffey and graduated from its high school. He spent most of his life in Daviess County. Rev. Hughs attended William Jewell College at Liberty, and graduated from the Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar. He did further college studies at the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City.

Rev. Hughs was an ordained minister in the Southern Baptist Convention. He served as pastor for a number of churches, in particular the Pilot Grove #1 & #2 Baptist Churches, Jamesport, for almost 13 years, and retired in 1989 as pastor at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Bethany. Rev. Hughs also served as the Interim Association Minister in Daviess & Harrison Counties with offices in Jamesport. He also was a tractor mechanic and operated his own shop in Jameson and Coffey.

On Dec. 8, 1935, he married Lillian Plummer at Gallatin. She died in October 1985. He married Fae Collins Wooderson on May 11, 1986, at Bethany. She survives of the home.

Rev. Hughs was also preceded in death by one sister, Lola Drysdale Slagle; and one grandson, Jacob Hughs.

Other survivors include two sons, Connie, King City, Joe David, Osage City, Kan; three daughters, Norma Fletcher and Beverly Berry, both of Gallatin, and Sondra Knecht, Cameron; two stepsons, John Wooderson, Blue Springs, and Ed Wooderson, Bethany; 20 grandchildren; eight step grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 10 step great-grandchildren.²

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The death of Mrs. Stanley Horner, wife of Stanley Horner of Stanley, Kansas, brought to a close a life of devotion and romance which began with their early life and lasted until Mrs. Horner's death last week.

A few years ago Mr. and Mrs. Horner bought a piece of land upon which to create an ideal home, some three miles southeast of Stanley. Their life was happy until financial troubles came that seemed unsurmountable. Stanley Horner and his wife built a most beautiful home in a secluded setting of trees, blue-grass and flowers, with a clear spring on the place, the whole a home of devotion and love such as is not always found. Then the depression fell upon the country.

Mr. Horner was a man of high ability in financial, credit and other bank work. Mrs. Horner, who was educated, refined and beautiful, took up work also in Kansas City and loyally aided her husband for several years in the redemption of the home they had toiled together to build.

Sickness came to this devoted woman and Stanley Horner made every effort and exhausted every resource of medicine and surgery to save his loyal companion. Months at Mayo's and unceasing doctors and hospital treatments did not avail and at last her gentle and loving spirit left her body, but those who knew her and her gallant husband, know that that spirit hovers over the home and lingers about the man who worked so loyally to make her life happy.³