Merrill Eugene Hughes Dies

LEXINGTON-Merrill Eugene Hughes, 60, passed July 7, 2010, in the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Saturday, July 10, 2010, at 2 p.m. in Midway School Road Baptist Church; Rev. Robert Walker and Albert Craven officiating. Burial with military honors will follow in Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church Cemetery. Born December 31, 1949, in Davidson County, N.C., a son of the late Walter Guy Hughes and Annie Lee Hepler Hughes. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a step-daughter, Amy Mason. Surviving: his wife Linda Calhoun (married December 21, 1991); three sons, Jody Hughes and special friend Kay Lewis, Myron Hughes and wife Kim and Charles Hughes and wife Nichele, all of Thomasville; a step-son, Richie Batchelor and wife Sherry of Lexington; a sister, Kathryn Davis and husband Bud of Thomasville; and eight grandchildren.