Ocie was born February 2, 1930 at home in Grant City, Missouri, to Ocie Nile (Long) and Wade Raymond Blake.. Her brother, Marion, was older and the two of them were very close. She graduated from Worth County RI and Gard Business School in St. Joseph, Missouri. Ocie worked at Citizens’ Bank until two of her daughters were born and then returned to the bank when they were teenagers. She retired in 1994 from the same establishment.
In 1952, Ocie and Robert Eugene Hughes were married and raised their family in Grant City. Ocie was an active member of the Grant City Baptist Church until she moved to Creston, Iowa, in 2005, to be closer to family. In 2015, she moved to Crest Haven Nursing & Rehab.
Surviving Ocie are her two daughters, Judy Hopkins and Karen (John) Dibel, grandchildren Sherri (Mike) Hinrichs, Josh (Beth) Hopkins and Sara (Matthew) Konen; five great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter, brother-in-law James (Annie) Hughes, sisters-in-law Marjorie Dennis and Bertha Hughes, a host of nieces and nephews and friends.
Preceding Ocie in death were her husband, Bob, in 1975; an infant daughter, Connie, in 1966; her parents; her brother; and four sisters-in-law and four brothers-in-law and son-in-law, G.R. (Bob) Hopkins.
Graveside Services and interment will be 11:00 A.M. Thursday, May 30, 2019 at the Grant City Cemetery in Grant City, Missouri. Arrangements are under direction of Prugh-Dunfee Funeral Home in Grant City.
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