Jasper-Jackson-Greene County MO Archives Biographies.....HOUGH(Boggess), Edith August 15, 1906 - February 13, 1996
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EDITH  (BOGGESS)  HOUGH


Edith Boggess, I1059, was fourth born, second to adulthood, to Samuel Cleveland
Boggess and Kate Knight in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, 15 August 1906, married
24 August 1935 in Manitou Springs, El Paso county, Colorado to Edwin Albert Hough
(1908LA-1995MD) s/o Walter Martin Hough and Adele Ziegler (whose mother once boarded
Fredrick Remington who gave her four pieces of his original art, kept at Nelson Art
Gallary in Kansas City, Missouri for years by Edwin.) They had one daughter Jane
Ellen, who had one son, Gian Marco. Edwin and Edith died in Chevy Chase, Montgomery
county, Maryland, he 9 April 1995 she 13 February1996. They are both buried in the
Hough plot at Park cemetery, Carthage, Missouri. (Edwin, as a Naval officer during
World War II, once served at Rod & Gun Club, Everglades City, Collier county,
Florida. so mentioned when we took them there for lunch in the 1980's.) 

"Edith was a graduate of Springfield Teachers College in Missouri. [She had attended
University of Missouri until 2 April 1928 when at age twenty-one, she went home to
become the women of the house following her mother's death.] She taught school in
Carthage and at an Ameican school in the Philippines, where she accompanied her
husband to an agency for Internaional Development assignment. They also lived in
Korea and Japan. She was a resident of Chevy Chase, and had lived in the Washington
area off and on since 1938. A Girl Scout leader: a volunteer with the Common Cause;
and member of River Road Unitarian Church; the P.E.O. philanthropic organization; the
Foreign Service Wives Association; and the Chevy Chase Women's Club." (from obituary)



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