Edward Wallace Hughston

Long-time New Mexico resident Edward Wallace Hughston died peacefully on Sunday 28 May at his home in Taos at the age of 87. Ed was born in Hillsboro, Texas, where he spent the first five years of his life, on 29 June 1929, at the peak of the roaring twenties. The stock market crash of October 1929 four months later set the stage for his Great Depression childhood. "But this childhood was wonderful," he said, "and any notion of the Depression came much later." After eight years in Tyler, Ed's family moved to Dallas, where he attended Highland Park High School, from which he graduated at the age of fifteen. In the autumn of 1945 Ed enrolled at Southern Methodist University, where he met Joan Lorraine Palmer, whom he married three days after graduating from SMU in 1949. Obtaining a Master of Arts degree in geology from the University of Texas at Austin, he then embarked on a career in oil and gas spanning seven decades, based first in Corpus Christi, where his three sons were born, then Dallas, and finally Taos, where Ed moved with Joan in 1979 and spent many happy years, making numerous good friends.

He is survived by son Lane Hughston of London, England, son Mark Hughston of Dallas and his wife Marla Hughston, son Thomas Hughston of Taos, granddaughter Katherine Kennedy and her husband Walter Kennedy, grandson Christopher Hughston and his fiancé Bridget Jernigan, grandsons Benjamin Hughston and Parker Hughston, and great-grandson Wyatt Kennedy. He was preceded in death by his wife Joan Palmer Hughston (1928-2003), father Thomas Dudley Hughston Sr (1903-1964), mother Margaret West Hughston (1904-2002), brother Thomas Dudley Hughston Jr (1927-1997) and sister-in-law Betty Briggs Hughston (1929-2010).

Arrangements by Rivera Family Funeral Home. To share a memory, please