Friday, March 26, 1999 
Last modified at 6:00 a.m. on Friday, March 26, 1999
Hugh Akard 





Services for Hugh Wilton Akard, 84, of Lubbock will be at 11 a.m. today in Sanders Funeral Home with Whiz Davis officiating.
Burial will be in City of Lubbock Cemetery under direction of Sanders Funeral Home.
Akard died Tuesday, March 23, 1999, at his daughter's residence in Austin.
He was born Oct. 14, 1914, near Charleston. He attended Charleston and Vasco schools. He moved to Lubbock in 1932 and worked in the cotton fields. He drove trucks for Quitaque Sand & Gravel. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a bus driver for the Lubbock Bus Co. from 1946 to 1959. In 1959, he worked for the City of Lubbock Animal Shelter, where he retired as chief warden in 1980. He married Oma Lee.i He married Erma Frazier on Sept. 27, 1947. She died in 1971. 
Survivors include a sister, Eula Faye Woods of Sand Springs; three daughters, Charlotte Lane Johnson of Lubbock, Glenell Dee Welborn of Austin and Mary Katherine Thacker of Oklahoma City; 17 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren.