Janice McKellar Hughes' Obituary
Hughes, Janice McKellar lived from January 3, 1910 to June 3, 2010. Janice was born to Hector Neal McKellar and Roxie Taylor McKellar in Pecos, Texas. She graduated from Pecos, Texas. She graduated from Pecos High School and entered C.I.A. (now Texas Woman’s University). She furthered her education at Sul Ross State Teacher’s College in Alpine, Texas. Janice was married to Alton P. Hughes on June 21, 1933. He died January 3, 1993. Janice is survived by her two sons Robert Neal Hughes and his wife Harriet and Kenneth Howard Hughes and his wife Dee, together with grandchildren James A. Hughes, Alice H. Oakley, Taylor Allison Hughes and Hunter Howard Hughes; four great grandchildren; sister Helen Randall of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Willie Sanders her loving caregiver of 13 years and best friend as well. Janice lived in Pecos, Texas most of her life where she thrived as a wife and mother, successful business woman and community leader. Her family was one of the pioneer families of West Texas with ranching and mineral interests in Reeves and Pecos counties. Her uncle Howard Collier was one of the cowboys that founded the world’s first rodeo on July 4th, 1883. She began an insurance career with Franklin Life Insurance Company Agency in 1946 later joining her father in a multi-line insurance agency, the McKellar Insurance Agency. After her father’s death she assumed management of the agency, changed the name to Hughes Insurance Agency and built it into a highly professional and well known West Texas business. Her husband joined her and together they ran the business until 1965 when Janice retired. During her career she had become an astute realtor and during the later years of her business career she concentrated on these abilities. She was well known for the development of housing communities for returning WWII veterans and their families during the great agricultural boom of the 1940’s. Janice was a lifetime Methodist and served her church in many capacities. She was the first president of the Pecos Women’s Division of the Chamber of Commerce. She was instrumental in the formation of the Golden Girl of the Old West and in the promotion of Pecos as the “Home of the World’s First Rodeo.” At the time of her death Janice was a resident of the Monticello West in Dallas, Texas.
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