Robert W. Hughes

Dr. Hughes died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002, at Lakeview Manor.

He was born Aug. 4, 1927, in Topeka, the son of Lawrence D. and Hazel (Skinner) Hughes. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1945, from Kansas University with a bachelor of science degree in 1950 and from the KU Medical School in 1954. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta social fraternity.

Dr. Hughes served as fireman second class in the U.S. Navy after World War II.

He served an internship at St. Mary’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., was on staff at Russell County Hospital, and had an internship at KU Med in Kansas City, Kan. He was on staff at Lawrence Memorial Hospital from 1959 to 1983 and chief of the family practice department for two terms. He retired Nov. 1, 1999.

Dr. Hughes had been a preceptor of family practice residents at KU and was a charter member of American Academy of Family Practice. He was a charter member of Boys and Girls Club. Other memberships included Kansas Medical Society; Douglas County Medical Society; alumni board of Phi Delta Theta; Noon Cosmopolitan Club; Plymouth Congregational Church; Dorsey-Liberty Post No. 14 American Legion; KU Alumni Association; Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks; and Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.

He was elected to Lawrence City Commission in 1969.

He was team doctor for the KU and Lawrence High football squads from the 1960s through 1997 and a volunteer physician at the Sunflower State Games.

He married Diane Wade on Aug. 8, 1953, in Mission. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two daughters, Janice Lynn Hughes, of the home, and Sharon Hughes Gordon, Clinton; a son, Patrick L., Overland Park; and two granddaughters.

The family will greet friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

The family suggests memorials to Lawrence Boys and Girls Club or to Hospice Care of Douglas County, sent in care of the mortuary.

E-mail condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Hughes.