[List] Obituary: Jim Hughes

[Cecil Stokes]

    Obituary: Jim Hughes

Jim was born in a farmhouse on Hughes Road to Howard and Lorene Hughes 
on May 24, 1934 and died on January 26, 2023. He attended Madison Junior 
High School and Graduated Huntsville High School class of 1952 where he 
met and later married the love of his life Billie Faye Webb in 1955. He 
graduated from Alabama Polytech Institute (Auburn University) in 1956. 
At Auburn he was a member of Sigma Nu social fraternity, the Arnold Air 
Society and the P Tau Sigma honorary Mechanical Engineering Society. He 
served in the 19th Bomb Wing (SAC) in the United States Air Force.

He worked at Thiokol Chemical Company and the US Army Missile Command in 
the Shillelagh Project Office, Deputy Project Manager for Viper and 
Javelin while serving as OPM,AAWS-M. After retiring from civil service, 
he worked at Northrup Grumman until full retirement in 2001.

Jim was very civic minded and help steer the growth of Madison. He was 
the first President of the Madison Planning Commission. President of the 
Madison PTA, trustee of Madison Junior High School, President of Madison 
Civitan Club North Division.

He was very active in establishing athletic programs in Madison. He was 
the first coach of the Madison Little league team several years before 
his boys were old enough to play. He was the first coach of the Madison 
YMCA football team. He coached several basketball, baseball, and 
football teams while his sons grew up in Madison.

Jim was an avid outdoorsman. He enjoyed hunting and fishing with Bill 
and golfing with Jim.

He is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Billie Hughes; and his 
brother, Bob G. Hughes. He is survived by two sons, James ’Jim’ Gordon 
Hughes Jr and his wife, Becky, and William ‘Bill’ Howard Hughes and his 
special friend, Debbie Kirkland; two grandsons, Bill Hughes (Beth Anne) 
and Jim Hughes; great-granddaughter, Lexi Hughes; and special friend, 
Caroline Williams.

Visitation will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Monday, January 30, 
2023, at Laughlin Service Funeral Home Chapel. The funeral service will 
follow at 12:00 p.m. with Bob Burton officiating. Burial will be in 
Madison City Cemetery.

In lieu, of flowers, memorials may be made to Huntsville Hospital 
Hospice Family Care, 10000 Serenity Lane, Huntsville, AL 35803: 
hhcaringforlife.org

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Jim had TC#3331 and was a lead operations engineer in the Raw Materials 
& Case Preparation Sectionin the early '60s.
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