- Date Of Birth: July 13, 1935
- Date Of Death: April 2, 2016
- State: Idaho
Claudia Lee Hughes (known to family as Sissie, Known to friends as Toni), 80, of Meridian, Idaho, passed away on April 2, 2016 with her loving family by her side.
Toni Hughes was born on July 13, 1935 to RoyLee Harkins and Claudia Epps Bair in Stonewall, Oklahoma. Toni was the proud descendant of George Washington Harkins, Chief of the Choctaw Nation during the Trail of Tears.
She was happily married to her husband, Tom, for 62 years. Together they lived in Attleboro, MA, San Bernardino, CA; Modesto, CA; San Diego, CA; Star, ID, and finally Boise. Toni worked as an X-ray Tech at St Bernadine Medical Center until she retired to move to Idaho to be close to her grandchildren. Toni enjoyed life to the fullest, square dancing, ballroom dancing, movie days with her daughter & granddaughter, being surrounded and spoiling children no matter who they officially belonged to, donning her orange & blue gear to cheer on the BSU Broncos, volunteering for Idaho National Teenager pageant, volunteering for Mrs. Idaho America pageant and cheering for contestants at the national Mrs. America pageant.
Grateful for having shared her life are her loving family – her daughter, Sher Finke and her husband Mike, of Meridian; her son, Daniel Hughes, of Middleton; her son, Jeffrey Hughes and her wife Natausha, of Boise; her son, Michael Hughes and her wife Judy, of Kuna; her brother Albert Harkins of Banning CA, Brother Marty Bair of Bullhead City AZ, Sister Senda Whisenhunt of Laverne, OK, Sister-in-Law Claire Foss, of Jasper, IN; 8 granddaughters; 4 grandsons; 9 great granddaughters; 12 great grandsons; her family at the Meridian Assembly of God, the Oasis Group, and many years of pageant contestants.
