CRAIG/FLAGLER PALMS FUNERAL HOME
511 Old Kings Road South
Flagler Beach, Florida

Gloria G. Hughes



Gloria G. Hughes, 84 of Palm Coast, passed away on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at the Florida Hospital Flagler.

Mrs. Hughes was born May 21, 1927 in Jacksonville, Florida. She was the daughter of Robert L., and Mamie T. (Markham) Jenkins. Mrs. Hughes worked as a telephone operator for the New York Telephone Company, and was a member of the Calvary Christian Center Church in Ormond Beach, Florida.

Mrs. Hughes served as an Elder at the Morris Cerullo Evangelistic Team. Her creative abilities which she so enjoyed was interior decorating and she had a passion for shopping on the Home Shopping Network. She was indeed an amazing woman of God who had a heart of compassion and a golden sense of humor with the gift of making people laugh and gift of giving. Mrs. Hughes was admired and loved by her loving family and friends and to people she met a long the way.

Mrs. Hughes is survived and was married on May 21, 1949 to her husband, Calvin Hughes for 62 years at the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, NY. Four children were born to this union. Daughter, Deborah Cheryl Akins of Kissimmee, FL; three sons, Kevin S. Hughes of Brooklyn NY, Keith V. Hughes of Newport News, VA and Alan B. (Nateesh) Hughes of Jamaica, NY; 5 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her five sisters and one brother; eldest sister Bernice May, Brother, Robert L. Jenkins, sisters, Dorothy Peacock, Ernestine Bristow, Ruth E Slade, her twin sister Eloise Jones, and son-in-law, Lugene Lawrence Akins.

Family and friends will be received Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:00am – 11:30am. Home Going Celebration will commence at 11:30am Location: Palm Coast United Methodist Church, 5200 Belle Terre Parkway – Palm Coast, Florida 32137 Interment will follow after the repast.

Services are under the direction of: Craig-Flagler Palms Funeral Home.