Funeral Mass for Irmgard R. Hughes will be 12:00 p.m. Friday, January 26, 2018 in Holy Family Catholic Church with Rev. Philip Seeton, Pastor officiating.

Burial with Lawton Fire Department honors will follow in Highland Cemetery under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Irmgard R. Hughes, 79, passed away Tuesday, January 23, 2018 in Lawton. She was born April 8, 1938 in Mannheim, Germany to Richard and Maria Kreuzer. She attended and graduated from schools in Germany. She also attended Cameron University. She married Weston Sumner Hughes in Mannheim, Germany on September 7, 1960. He was a member of the United States Army stationed in Germany at the time. In 1964, they moved to Fort Polk, Louisiana; in 1965 to Granite City, Illinois, where she worked as a travel agent in St. Louis, Missouri; in 1967 to Fort Gordon, Georgia; in 1970 back to Mannheim, Germany and finally in 1975 to Fort Sill, Oklahoma where her husband retired from the U.S. Army.

She worked for the City of Lawton Fire Department from 1975 to 2005 as a secretary to five fire chiefs: Chief Jimmie Martin (1975), Chief Richard Tannery (deceased) (1976-1989), Chief Michael Carter (1989-1996), Chief Donald Barrington (1996-2002), and Chief Bart Hadley (2002-2005).

In Germany, she was involved in Boy Scouts as a troop secretary, in Girl Scouts as a Neighborhood Treasurer, Trainer and Junior Troop Leader (Troop 580). She attended Girl Scout training sessions in Adelboden, Switzerland and Heidelberg, Germany. In Lawton she participated in the annual Wichita Mountains Easter Pageant for years.

She was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church. She also enjoyed time with her family and traveling. She was a master gardener and an avid knitter, often knitting articles for her family members.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Carol Hughes, Marshfield, Missouri; her daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Reagan Denney, Lawton; five grandchildren and their spouses, Kate and Ruben Martin, Robyn Alysa and Kenny Johnson, Callie and Derek Harwell, Mollie and Jon Wilson and Emily Hughes; and several great grandchildren. She is also survived by many of her friends at the Lawton Fire Department, who were her "special family".

Her parents and her husband preceded her in death.