Mary Jean Ard

GRANBURY — Mary Jean Hughes Ard, 89, passed away on Wednesday, November 25, 2015, in Granbury, Texas. Service: Graveside 10 a.m. Wednesday, December 2, 2015, at Rogers City Cemetery located in Rogers, Arkansas. Visitation: 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, November 30, 2015 at Wiley Funeral Home Granbury, Texas.
Mary Jean was born February 12, 1926, to Paul J. Hughes and Mary Elizabeth Edwards Hughes in Rogers, Arkansas. She attended school in Rogers from first grade through her junior year in highschool. Her family moved to Eureka Springs, Arkansas in 1943 where she graduated. She attended Chillicothe Business College in Missouri before going to work as a leasing associate for Gulf Oil Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After she moved to Oklahoma City with the company, she met and married Raymond E. “Ray” Ard who was also working for Gulf Oil. They moved to Lagos, Nigeria in 1972 and thereafter, were transferred to Midland, Texas where she resumed working Gulf Oil. Following retirement, they settled in Granbury, Texas where Mary Jean was very active in the Acton United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Ray, who died in 2004.
Survivors include: brother Tom Hughes and wife Ruth of Sacramento, CA; step daughter Laura Anne Ard of Bethesda, MD; nephew Samuel Thomas Hughes; nieces Diana K. Bachman, Elaine F. Wilson, Mary C. Gudeman; and numerous great nieces and nephews.

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