Loyce Ann Hughes

Loyce Ann Hughes
Ann Hughes went to her heavenly reward on November 10, 2023, peacefully and surrounded by those who loved her.
Ann was born January 26, 1937, to Bart and Joyce Ann Caldwell in Wewoka, Oklahoma. She learned customer service and the retail business working in her father's M&P grocery store in McAlester from the age of 12. Highlights of her childhood were hunting trips to Colorado with her parents and siblings, Jack, Joy, Sheila, and Jerry Ann, and visiting her little brother Fred in Arizona along Route 66 and the railroad.
She attended McAlester High School and married Wayne Williams, living in California, Abilene, and Altus. She worked as a homemaker, clerk, secretary and in retail, eventually managing Happy Foods in Holdenville, Oklahoma.
Ann married Jerry Suva and they moved back to Prague where she opened the Save-A-Stop as its first manager. She later worked at Moore's Market and Benson's True Value for many years. She was once named the Prague Chamber of Commerce Employee of the Month. She joined St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, baptized into the church by Fr. Dan Sullentrop and guided by godmother Lena Patak. Ann looked after many family members both young and old, close kin, distant cousins, and some no kin at all. After Jerry's passing, she shared her home with close friend Mayme Ogburn. Later, Ann married local resident Norman Hughes and they enjoyed retirement together on eight acres between Prague and Paden. Ann later lived in Houston, Austin, and Oklahoma City with her children.
Ann loved traveling to state and national parks, crocheting, gardening, plants, knick-knacks, antiques, refinishing wood and furniture, making flags, celebrating Christmas well into the new year, making wine (and since the statute of limitations has expired, brandy), old westerns, going to Mass, and collecting owls. Most of all she loved seeing and being with her family.
The family would like to thank the caregivers who helped mom over the years and in the last weeks, including Jeannie, Lily, Sylvia, Nancy, Leona, Charlotte, Jackie, Taylor, and Lauren. Ann had the blessing of living the last year in the home of her son Darryll and daughter-in-law Denise in Oklahoma City.
Ann was predeceased by her husbands, parents, brother Jack Caldwell, sisters Joy Dell Russell and Jerry Ann Caldwell, daughter Sherry Laughery, stepdaughter Jeanette Hinds (Don), and sisters-in-law Eva Boberg and Georgia Ann Connor.
She is survived by sons Darryll Williams (Denise), James Williams (Nancy), Kenneth Williams (Dedra), and Jerry Suva II (Rita), son-in-law Chris Laughery, stepdaughter Dana Moore-Wolfe (Ian), brother Fred Causley (Mary), sister Sheila Duff (Mike), and brother-in-law James Connor. Ann also had 14 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren.
Rosary and visitation will be held Friday evening. Funeral Mass will be at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church at 10:00 AM, Saturday, November 18, and she will be laid to rest at the Catholic Cemetery.