Services for Susan Juanita Wagner Huggins, 83, of Lufkin, were held Nov. 13, 2003 in the Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Lufkin with burial in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park.
Mrs. Huggins was the daughter of Euclid Franklin Wagner and Grace Bryan Alexander. She was married for 53 years to Davis Lee "Hank" Huggins, who died in 1993.
Juanita lived a very interesting life. As a girl she traveled throughout the United States with her mother, sister and their band, doing live radio broadcasts and performances for all occassions. She attended 21 different schools but graduated in the top 10 in her class from Southside High School, Memphis, Tenn. In 1939, while touring with their band, they hired Hank Huggins as a guitarist. Soon after, Hank became a permanent member of the band when he and Juanita married in 1940.
In 1955, they moved to Lufkin from Union City, Tennessee, where they had lived since the end of World War II. Hank took a job with newly opened KTRE as he had experience in both radio and television. Juanita and Hank began performing together on television shortly thereafter. They then formed a band and had the show, Kay TREE Jamboree, which lated became the Double H Ranch on which they appeared every Thursday night until 1971. For a short while, they performed for TV audiences on Sunday afternoons on the Ideal Ranch Party.
Calvary Baptist was her church home since moving to Lufkin and the place where she made many wonderful friends.
Juanita loved music, dancing, reading and grdening but her first loves were God, her husband and her children. She was an excellent homemaker, wife and mother to her three children, Linda Huggins-Martin; James E. Huggins and Daniel B. Huggins.
Survivors in addition to her children; beloved grandchildren, Amy Elizabeth Huggins and Adam James Huggins; daughters-in-law, Margaret Billingsley Huggins and Betty Walton Huggins.
Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors.
Mrs. Huggins was the daughter of Euclid Franklin Wagner and Grace Bryan Alexander. She was married for 53 years to Davis Lee "Hank" Huggins, who died in 1993.
Juanita lived a very interesting life. As a girl she traveled throughout the United States with her mother, sister and their band, doing live radio broadcasts and performances for all occassions. She attended 21 different schools but graduated in the top 10 in her class from Southside High School, Memphis, Tenn. In 1939, while touring with their band, they hired Hank Huggins as a guitarist. Soon after, Hank became a permanent member of the band when he and Juanita married in 1940.
In 1955, they moved to Lufkin from Union City, Tennessee, where they had lived since the end of World War II. Hank took a job with newly opened KTRE as he had experience in both radio and television. Juanita and Hank began performing together on television shortly thereafter. They then formed a band and had the show, Kay TREE Jamboree, which lated became the Double H Ranch on which they appeared every Thursday night until 1971. For a short while, they performed for TV audiences on Sunday afternoons on the Ideal Ranch Party.
Calvary Baptist was her church home since moving to Lufkin and the place where she made many wonderful friends.
Juanita loved music, dancing, reading and grdening but her first loves were God, her husband and her children. She was an excellent homemaker, wife and mother to her three children, Linda Huggins-Martin; James E. Huggins and Daniel B. Huggins.
Survivors in addition to her children; beloved grandchildren, Amy Elizabeth Huggins and Adam James Huggins; daughters-in-law, Margaret Billingsley Huggins and Betty Walton Huggins.
Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors.
Services for Susan Juanita Wagner Huggins, 83, of Lufkin, were held Nov. 13, 2003 in the Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home Chapel in Lufkin with burial in the Garden of Memories Memorial Park.
Mrs. Huggins was the daughter of Euclid Franklin Wagner and Grace Bryan Alexander. She was married for 53 years to Davis Lee "Hank" Huggins, who died in 1993.
Juanita lived a very interesting life. As a girl she traveled throughout the United States with her mother, sister and their band, doing live radio broadcasts and performances for all occassions. She attended 21 different schools but graduated in the top 10 in her class from Southside High School, Memphis, Tenn. In 1939, while touring with their band, they hired Hank Huggins as a guitarist. Soon after, Hank became a permanent member of the band when he and Juanita married in 1940.
In 1955, they moved to Lufkin from Union City, Tennessee, where they had lived since the end of World War II. Hank took a job with newly opened KTRE as he had experience in both radio and television. Juanita and Hank began performing together on television shortly thereafter. They then formed a band and had the show, Kay TREE Jamboree, which lated became the Double H Ranch on which they appeared every Thursday night until 1971. For a short while, they performed for TV audiences on Sunday afternoons on the Ideal Ranch Party.
Calvary Baptist was her church home since moving to Lufkin and the place where she made many wonderful friends.
Juanita loved music, dancing, reading and grdening but her first loves were God, her husband and her children. She was an excellent homemaker, wife and mother to her three children, Linda Huggins-Martin; James E. Huggins and Daniel B. Huggins.
Survivors in addition to her children; beloved grandchildren, Amy Elizabeth Huggins and Adam James Huggins; daughters-in-law, Margaret Billingsley Huggins and Betty Walton Huggins.
Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors.
Mrs. Huggins was the daughter of Euclid Franklin Wagner and Grace Bryan Alexander. She was married for 53 years to Davis Lee "Hank" Huggins, who died in 1993.
Juanita lived a very interesting life. As a girl she traveled throughout the United States with her mother, sister and their band, doing live radio broadcasts and performances for all occassions. She attended 21 different schools but graduated in the top 10 in her class from Southside High School, Memphis, Tenn. In 1939, while touring with their band, they hired Hank Huggins as a guitarist. Soon after, Hank became a permanent member of the band when he and Juanita married in 1940.
In 1955, they moved to Lufkin from Union City, Tennessee, where they had lived since the end of World War II. Hank took a job with newly opened KTRE as he had experience in both radio and television. Juanita and Hank began performing together on television shortly thereafter. They then formed a band and had the show, Kay TREE Jamboree, which lated became the Double H Ranch on which they appeared every Thursday night until 1971. For a short while, they performed for TV audiences on Sunday afternoons on the Ideal Ranch Party.
Calvary Baptist was her church home since moving to Lufkin and the place where she made many wonderful friends.
Juanita loved music, dancing, reading and grdening but her first loves were God, her husband and her children. She was an excellent homemaker, wife and mother to her three children, Linda Huggins-Martin; James E. Huggins and Daniel B. Huggins.
Survivors in addition to her children; beloved grandchildren, Amy Elizabeth Huggins and Adam James Huggins; daughters-in-law, Margaret Billingsley Huggins and Betty Walton Huggins.
Carroway-Claybar Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors.
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