Cleric.
Born at Winnipeg on 22 August 1915, son of John Hughes (c1879-?) and Mary Jane Jones (c1881-?), he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and trained as a flight engineer but worked as a radar instructor. After the war, he returned to Winnipeg and studied Theology at United College. In 1952, he was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada. He served at Knox United Church at Plumas (1951-?) then moved to Toronto, Ontario for a period. He was the minister at Charleswood United Church from 1960 until retirement in 1980. For a short period, he was interim minister at St. Stephens Broadway United Church.
On 4 July 1953, he married Mary Fern Bartlett (c1923-1971) in the United College Chapel and they subsequently had a son and a daughter. The family lived at 289 Oakdale Drive, Charleswood.
He died at the Victoria Hospital on 12 August 2004 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Birth registration [Owen Tudor Hughes], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
“Fern Bartlett weds Rev. Hughes at ceremony in college chapel,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 July 1953, page 12.
Obituary [Mary Fern Hughes], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 August 1971, page 33.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 16 August 2004.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 December 2025
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