in the Navy after WW2, 1948ish
per Daddy, he died in Los Angeles, had been been dead some time before Nana learned about it, she paid to have his body shipped back to be buried in the Union Cem

1930FCI W Hughes/Phillips/Parry; PA; Lackawanna; Blakely; District 103; image 43 of 51 @ancestry.com; ED 35-103; SD 6; pg 22A; Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Blakely, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: 2048; Page: 22A; Enumeration District: 103; Image: 323.0.

Marriage; Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014 1950 30350-30636; image 158 of 287 @ancestry
Source Citation: Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Marriages, 1936-2014; Roll: 101168922
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1936-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.
Name: Robert Hughes; Gender: Male; Race: White
Age: 23; Birth Date: abt 1927; birthplace Blakely
OCC bartender
Father: William Hughes
Mother: Lelila Parsons
Marriage Registration Place: Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Marriage Date: 18 Nov 1950
Marriage Place: Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Spouse: Virginia Florence Britt; Gender: Female; Race: White
Age: 23; Birth Date: abt 1927; birthplace Wilmington, NC
Father: Joseph Britt
Mother: Annie Callahan