Cleric.
Born at Winnipeg on 22 August 1915, son of John Hughes and Mary Jane Jones, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and trained as a flight engineer but worked as a radar instructor. After the war, he returned to Winnipeg and studied Theology at United College. In 1952, he was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada. He served at Knox United Church at Plumas (1951-?) then moved to Toronto, Ontario for a period. He was the minister at Charleswood United Church from 1960 until retirement in 1980. For a short period, he was interim minister at St. Stephens Broadway United Church. On 4 July 1953, he married Mary Fern Bartlett (c1923-1971) in the United College Chapel and they subsequently had a son and a daughter. The family lived at 289 Oakdale Drive, Charleswood. He died at the Victoria Hospital on 12 August 2004 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Birth registration [Owen Tudor Hughes], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Fern Bartlett weds Rev. Hughes at ceremony in college chapel,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 July 1953, page 12.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 4 August 1971, page 33.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 16 August 2004.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 February 2024
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