Diane N Hughes

Visitation is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Parkway Funeral Home in Ridgeland with services immediately afterward in the funeral home chapel. Interment will be at Parkway Memorial Cemetery.

Diane was born in Jackson on April 5, 1946, the daughter of Bruce and Earline Nations, and spent most of her childhood in Memphis, TN, where she graduated from East High School. She was also a graduate of Mississippi State University where she was a sister in Chi Omega. She was a secretary of the Junior Class, was a member of the Cardinal Key and was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.

It was at Mississippi State that she met her husband, John E. “Toby” Hughes III, and the couple were married on campus at the Chapel of Memories on august 26, 1967. They were married 47 years.

Diane worked in a branch of the President’s office at the University of Virginia while Toby was in law school and loved living in her cottage at Liberty Hall Farm just outside Charlottesville at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

After moving to Jackson, she worked for Motors Insurance Corp., before becoming a full-time mother to her sons Jay Hughes of Greenwood, MS., and Whit Hughes of Madison, MS.

A member of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Jackson, she worked in the Mothers’ Moring Out program for several years. She was chair of the Holiday Potpourri fundraising program at the First Presbyterian Day School, where her sons were enrolled. Diane also was active in numerous bridge and social clubs.

She was actively involved at Jackson Preparatory School while her children were students there and loved attending her son’s athletic events.

One of her passions was travel, and she toured most of the continental United States, visited Hawaii and Alaska and made several trips to Western Europe. A devotee of the beach life, one of Diane’s favorite places was her condo at Sandestin, FL.

She is survived by her husband Toby, who is retired from Wells, Marble & Hurst Law firm; her son Jay; her son Whit (Shelley Foshee) Hughes and beloved grandchildren Phillip, Pax and Presley Hughes.

Memorials may be made to Covenant Presbyterian Church, 4000 Ridgewood Rd., Jackson, MS., 39211; Baptist Health foundation, 1225 N. State St., Jackson, MS, 39202; or Delta Streets Ministries, P.O. box 9895, 500 Washington St., Greenwood, MS, 38930.