Jimmy Joe Hughes

Funeral: 10 a.m. Wednesday at Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home in Colleyville. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Jim was born April 11, 1930, in Egan to Robert Gordon and Hazel Hughes. Jim grew up in Fort Worth and graduated from North Side High School. He worked many years for Bell-Helicopter Textron in Arlington. Jim served four years with the U.S. Marine Corps in South Korea as an air traffic controller. Jim was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend. He will be greatly missed.

Jim was preceded in death by his father, Robert Gordon; mother, Hazel; brother, LaRue; and sister, Helen Mikel.

Survivors: Wife, Billie; daughter, Valerie and her husband, Friedrich; grandchildren and their families, Adrian and her husband, Zach Wilson and their daughters Cassidy and Kensley; and Chris and his wife Jessica Loudenberg.