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Surnames: Hughes, Rohner, Wuest
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The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Anna Barbara Rohner Hughes, 87, beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother died
April 15, 2002, in Ogden, Utah. She was born June 11, 1914, in Paris, ID, to Otto and
Pauline Wuest Rohner. She grew up in Paris, ID, and graduated from Fielding High School.
After high school she attended Utah State University and was accepted into the nursing
school at the Budge Memorial Hospital. She graduated with her R.N. degree in 1937.
After working at the LDS Hospital, she married William Durrell Hughes, January 14,
1938, in the Logan LDS Temple. She lived in Mendon, Tremonton and Garland, UT. She became
a mother and continued some nursing with a lot of volunteer work during World War II and
in the years after.
Anna held various callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
including teaching Primary, Mutual and Relief Society and singing in the choir.
Survivors include: son, Kent (Deanne) Hughes, Garland; granddaughters, Becky (Scott)
Coleman, Surprise, AZ; Katie (Randall) Hill, Layton; and Julie Anna Hughes, Garland; three
great-grandchildren, Madelyn, Dylan, and Gabrielle; a sister, Hilda R. Hanson; a
sister-in-law, Kay Rohner, both of Salt Lake City. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Durrell; a baby son; sisters, Pauline Nye, Elsie Sleight, and Emma Glauser; three
brothers, Wilford, Herman and Walter Rohner.
Funeral services will be held Friday, April 19, 2002, 11:00 a.m. at the Garland LDS
3rd and 4th Ward Chapel, 175 South Main, with Bishop Ray Manning officiating. Friends may
call Thursday, April 18th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at Rogers and Taylor Funeral Home, 111
North 100 East.