JOHN D. HUX

SIKESTON -- A prominent Sikeston attorney, landowner and businessman died Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1993. John D. Hux, 78, died at the Columbia Regional Hospital in Columbia.

He was born Aug. 21, 1915 in Essex to James A. and Oltha Miles Hux.

On July 10, 1941, he married Olga L. Matthews in Sikeston. She preceded him in death on Jan. 29, 1990.

He graduated from Essex High School, and attended Southeast Missouri State University. He worked for the A.S.C.S. office in Stoddard County and the E.P. Coleman Company.

He then received undergraduate degrees from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arizona in Tucson. He earned his Juris Doctor of law degree from the University of Arizona Law School in 1956.

He began practicing in Sikeston in 1958, and became the senior partner in the Hux and Hux law firm in Sikeston.

He also formerly owned the Sikeston Tractor and Implement Company, and the Plymouth-DeSoto automobile dealership in Sikeston.

He served as an honorary colonel on the staffs of Missouri Governors John H. Dalton, Forrest Smith and Warren E. Hearnes.

He was a past member of the board of directors of the Bank of Sikeston, and in 1967 served as chairman of the Missouri State Banking Board.

He was a former board member of the Scott County Milling Company in Sikeston, and a former board member of the Sikeston United Way. He was past president of the Lee Hunter Elementary School P.T.A., and a past chairman of the Okeechobee district Boy Scout Council in Southeast Missouri.

He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, and a former member of the Methodist church board.

For 48 years, he was a member of the board of directors of the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was first elected to the executive committee of the hospital board in Feb. 13, 1945, and retired from that position on Jan. 29, 1989. He was a leader in the 1945-48 fundraising effort that led to construction of the original hospital building. He served as an officer of the hospital corporation since April 1963 and was the legal adviser for over 30 years. He was president of the board of directors and chairman of the executive committee of the hospital from April 1984 through April 1986.

Survivors include: two sons, John D. Hux Jr. and James M. Hux, both of Sikeston, and five grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Funeral services will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Sikeston with the Rev. Charles E. Buck officiating. He will be assisted by the Rev. Tom Geers, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Sikeston.

Burial will follow in Memories Cemetery in Sikeston.