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Hugh, Paul G.
Paul G. Hugh, 93, of Monticello, died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at S.S. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church, rural Monticello. Interment will be in the Prairie Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. The Rev. Paul Finger will officiate at the services. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at .
Surviving are six children, Ronald Hugh, Monticello, Barbara (Adam) Roses, Natick, Mass., Frances Gregory, Anamosa, and Donna (John) Bader, Shirley (David) Hardersen, Rebecca (Dan) Kraus all of Monticello; two grandchildren he raised, Teresa Gregory Hanson and Tim Gregory; 13 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Norma, in 2006; a son, Paul Lee; infant twins, Phillip and Phyllis; a daughter-in-law, Denise Hugh; and two brothers, Lloyd and Kenneth,
Paul Gienapp Hugh was born July 16, 1917, at Delaware, Iowa. He was the son of Ernest and Minnie Gienapp Hugh. He received his early education in the Delaware schools. He attended Manchester High School for two years and graduated from Delhi High School in 1934. Paul then started farming with his parents.
Paul G. Hugh and Norma S. Meyer were married Jan. 1, 1946, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Parsonage, Delaware, Iowa. The couple farmed for a year in Delaware County before purchasing a farm in Castle Grove Township, Jones County, Iowa. Paul also drove a truck part-time for Bob Like and Swiss Valley Farms. The couple moved to Monticello in 1999 from the farm.
Paul was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church. He was baptized Oct. 7, 1917, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Delaware and confirmed his faith on Nov. 2, 1947, at S.S. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church where he later served on the church council.
Paul was a member of Farm Bureau, the Extension Council, was a trustee for Castle Grove Township and the Extension Board and had served on the school board of Castle Grove School No. 8. He was an avid fisherman summer or winter.
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