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BOONE, N.C. – A celebration of the life of Dr. Peyton Albert Hughes will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church. Austin and Barnes Funeral Home and Creamtory is in charge of arrangements. Dr. Hughes, 80, of Boone, died Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. He was born May 29,1938 in Meridain, Miss. Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Maxine Taylor Hughes; a daughter, Sharon McKibbin and her husband, Mike, of Boone; two sons, Kent Hughes and his wife, Cynthia Lawrence, of Boone and St. Thomas, USVI, and Kevin Hughes and his wife, Kathy, of Atlanta, Ga.; five grandchildren; great-grandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren; two sisters: Cecilia Houser and her husband, Russell, of Huntsville, Ala., and Nancy Hughes of Albertville, Ala.; and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins, including Edwin Downer and his wife, Bette Maude, of Meridian. He was preceded in death by his father, Peyton W. Hughes; mother, Ruth Prather Hughes; and an infant brother, Warren. Memorials may be made to the Albert and Maxine Hughes Scholarship in Sociology, ASU, American Cancer Society, Grace Lutheran Church, The Hospitality House of Boone or to a charity of choice. 

Published in The Meridian Star on 2/6/2009