James M. Hughes Jr., 93, Altoona, passed away Monday at UPMC Altoona following a brief illness.
The son of James and Jean (Roy) Hughes, he married Eve Christodoulos on June 12, 1949, in Altoona.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years in 2010; and his daughter, Happiness Singler, in 2019.
He is survived by three daughters: Holly (Jim) Means of Westerville, Ohio, Hope (Dave) Furrer of Baltimore, Md., Heather (Jim) Little of Altoona; nine grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Jim joined the Marine Corps right out of high school in 1945 and served with the 1st Separate Engineer Battalion in Tientsin and Tang Ku, China. He graduated from Penn State University in 1951 with a degree in electrical engineering. Jim was first employed by Westinghouse Electric in Baltimore, Md. He joined the engineering faculty of PSU Altoona, teaching electrical engineering in 1955, where he retired in 1986. He served as the electrical engineering consultant for DM Bare (Appleton) Paper Mill