- Date Of Birth: May 10, 1930
- Date Of Death: December 16, 2017
- State: Colorado
Harold Edgar Hughey
May 10, 1930- December 16, 2017
After years of battling Parkinson’s disease, Harold passed
away in Grand Junction on December 16, 2017, at the age of 87.
He was born in Wichita, Kansas on May 10, 1930, to Harold
Hayes Hughey and Pearl Owens Hughey. After his junior year
at Wichita North High School, he joined the Navy and served
one year. He returned to North High as a Naval Reservist and
graduated with the class of 1950. Shortly thereafter, he was
recalled by the Navy and served as Airman on three different
aircraft carriers during the Korean Conflict. He was Honorably
discharged in 1952 and began studying mechanical
engineering at Wichita University. It was there he met Sue
Cosette Strange. They were married January 27, 1954.
In his early career, Harold was in the construction business and
later worked at Boeing Aircraft in Wichita as a technical writer.
In 1961, he took a job with Martin-Marietta Aerospace, where
he worked in systems engineering after moving to Denver,
Colorado with his wife, Sue, and their two young sons.
Harold and his family were outdoor enthusiasts and enjoyed
hiking, camping, and skiing together. Many summer vacations
were spent boating and exploring Utah’s Lake Powell while it
was still a relatively unknown destination. In 1969, the family
moved to Lakewood. In 1987, Harold retired from Martin
grown, Harold and Sue moved to Grand Junction in 1996, where
they took up a game new to them and spent many happy days
playing golf. They also began a life of adventure travel, over time
Cruise’s sailing ships.
in South America and Europe, as well as Australia and New
Zealand. They learned to sail, bought a sailboat and trailer, and
explored the California coast, the Puget Sound area, the Canadian
Inside Passage, the Intracoastal Waterway, and many lakes
around the country. Harold has departed, solo, for his next great
adventure and will be sorely missed by family and friends.
Harold is survived by his wife, Sue, sons, Jeffrey (Lisa) Hughey
of Sedalia, and Gregory Hughey of Steamboat Springs.
