Obituaries 15 May 2017

Mary Alice Hughes

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Mary Alice Hughes, 89, of Hillsboro, passed away Friday, May 12, 2017.

She was born May 31, 1927 at Sugar Tree Ridge, the daughter of the late Ernest and Bessie (Tice) Bloom.

Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald Junior Hughes; one son, Jerald Lynn Hughes; five brothers, Elwood, Denver, Gleason, Donald and Virgil Bloom; and one sister, Mildred Davis.

Mary Alice was a member of the First United Methodist Church and retired manager of Litts Brothers in uptown Hillsboro for over 40 years.

She is survived by three daughters, Sharon (Homer Kenneth) Bell of Hillsboro, Karen (Dale) Schraw of Hillsboro and Deborah (John) Malone of Hillsboro; one son, Gary L. (Dorothy Vance) Hughes of Augusta, Ga.; 13 grandchildren, Rodney Alan (Robyn) Bell, Stephanie Marie Bell, Jeremy (Crystal) Schraw, Amanda (Mark) Bigger, Brooke (Drew) Gibson, Dustin (Kari) Malone, Nick Malone, Mary Melissa (Paul) Parkison, Sara Elisabeth Hughes Ward (Walter) Petty, Tina Lakeberg, Andrew (Ali) Hughes, Ariadne Ehrich and Joe Ehrich; 20 great-grandchildren, Austin, Cody and Savannah Grace Bell, Josh Schraw, Carson and Keegan Bigger, Kya Gibson, Will, Jonathan, and Anderson Malone, Mary Cassidy and Sam Parkison, Blake and Matthew Ward, Taylor Petty, Chelsea and Josh Lakeberg, Charlotte Leone Hughes, and James and Lucy Ehrich; one sister, Geraldine Breckel of Wilmington; several nieces, nephews and cousins; and a host of friends.

Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 17 at the Thompson Funeral Home in Hillsboro. The Rev. Tom Zile will officiate, with burial to follow in the Sugar Tree Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the funeral home.

Family request memorials to the American Cancer Society or to Alzheimer Association.

For more information, visit www.thompsonfuneralhomes.com.

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