dropped out of high school to get a job at Moskowitz’s (mom and pop grocery store) after Poppa’s accident to help support Nani..... was drafted, and after the war went back to scool to graduate with Aunt Shirley’s class

32nd infantry division, served in Panama during WW2, and in the occupation of Japan after the war
as a joke while in Panama sent home a picture of naked aboriginal women and told his mom he had gotten married!
also from Nani’s story about the spider on his shoulder tickling his ear

moved to Endicott NY abt 1949-1950

died of pneumonia caught from sitting in draft of AC in barbershop just before going to hospital for heart-valve surgery, they wouldn’t operate because of pneumonia.

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.

1940FCI William Hughes Family and Elneda Kearney Family & mother; United States Federal Census; Pennsylvania >Lackawanna >Dickson >35-43 >Page 5 of 32 @ancestry.com; Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Dickson, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania; Roll: T627_3523; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 35-43. 613 Hallstead ST

Marriage; Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852-1968; Lackawanna 1948 - 1949; image 385 of 839 @ancestry; Source Information: Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1852-1968 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
Name: John Hughes; Gender: Male
Age: 24; Birth Date: abt 1924; birthplace Olyphant
OCC shoemaker
residence 222 2nd ST Blakely
Father: William Hughes; dead; birthplace Blakely
Mother: Leila Parsons; birthplace Dickson City
Marriage Date: 25 Sep 1948
Marriage Place: Blakely, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse: Bertha Lewis; Gender: Female
Age: 21; Birth Date: abt 1927; birthplace Blakely
OCC clerk
Father: Laverne Lewis; birthplace Blakely
Mother: Buela Bray; birthplace Blakey
Film Number: 002313663