LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE LIVED THE FIRST THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF HER LIFE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF IDA LAURA PARKS HUGGINS, DAUGHTER OF SOL AND LOUISE PARKS.
WORKING IN THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE, LOUISE MET GERALD T. DONOGHUE, A REPORTER WHO COVERED HORSE SHOW AND EQUINE EVENTS AS WELL AS GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS.
THEIR COURTSHIP WAS LITERALLY ON HORSEBACK. THEY RODE TOGETHER EACH AFTERNOON AT THE OLD IRA NIX STABLES. LOUISE HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER GENTLEMEN BUT GERRY WAS PERSISTANT. SHE FINALLY MARRIED HIM JANUARY 27, 1934.
ONE OF GERRY'S ASSIGNMENTS WAS TO COVER THE VISIT OF AN ARABIAN STALLION TO HOUSTON, A RARE BREED IN THOSE ENVIRONMENTS. PLEASED WITH THE ROTOGRAVURE COVERAGE, THE OWNER OFFERED TO GIVE A BREEDING, SO GERRY BOUGHT A PALAMINO MARE AND HAD HER BRED. THE FOUL WAS A FILLY.
IN 1942 THEY MOVED TO GOLIAD WITH THREE CHILDREN AND ONE HORSE, PURCHASING 500 ACRES OF LAND FOR $5000. THERE WERE TWO ROOMS UPSTAIRS AND TWO ROOMS DOWNSTAIRS WITH NO BATHROOM. THEY HAD A SCREENED PORCH THAT THEY LATER CONVERTED TO AN 8 X 8 KITCHEN.
GERRY WAS DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY IN 1943, AT THE AGE OF 38, JUST 9 MONTHS AFTER MOVING TO GOLIAD. WHILE STATIONED IN SAN ANTONIO, LOUISE AND THE THREE CHILDREN RAISED CATTLE AND VEGETABLES FOR THE WAR EFFORT.
FARMING WAS NOT THEIR FORTE, SO THE DONOGHUES TURNED TO REGISTERED HEREFORDS FOR A SHORT TIME. WHEN GERRY RETURNED FROM THE ARMY THREE YEARS LATER THE FAMILY WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION TO STAY IN GOLIAD OR RETURN TO HOUSTON. THE CHILDREN, THEN AGED 6, 8 AND 10, REFUSED TO LEAVE GOLIAD.
THE FILLY WAS BRED BACK TO AN ARABIAN, AND THUS BEGAN THE DONOGHUE'S INTEREST IN RAISING ARABIAN HORSES.
IN 1949, GERALD ACQUIRED THEIR FIRST PUREBRED ARABIAN AND BEGAN BREEDING SHOW HORSES IN THE 1950'S RECEIVING NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR HIS BREEDING PROGRAM.
THE DONOGHUE ARABIAN HORSE FARM IS FAMOUS, HAVING RACKED UP THOUSANDS OF RIBBONS AND ABOUT 750 TROPHIES. IT IS THE HOME OF BEAU IBN HANRAH, WHICH HAS STOOD AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN ARABIAN STALLIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
THE GOLIAD COUNTY COUNTRYSIDE IS WELL DESCRIBED IN WHEN PEACE COMES DROPPING SLOW, A BOOK ABOUT A BRUSH COUNTRY MAN RETURNING TO HIS HOME, WRITTEN BY GERALD T. DONOGHUE. URGED TO CONTINUE HIS WRITING, GERRY SAID HE RAISES BETTER HORSES THAN HE WRITES BOOKS.
∼Preceded in death by parents: W.O. Huggins & Ida Laura Parks Huggins
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
02 Apr 2003, Wed • Page 10
LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE—- Born on the Parks Ranch in Goliad County in 1908; passed away at her home in Goliad County on March 31, 2003.
Her Parents, WO. Huggins and Ida Laura Parks Huggins, lived in Houston where she was reared. She graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas, and attended the University of Texas in Austin. While working at the Houston Chronicle, she met her husband, Gerald T. Donoghue. They moved to Goliad in 1943 and later established The Donoghue Arabian Farm. Louise was actively involved in raising and showing Arabian Horses for over 30 years.
She was also active in the Girl Scouts and Paisano Girl Scout Council, The Goliad Garden Club, the Victoria Civic Theater and the Goliad Little Theater Group. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, and she helped many young people get college educations. She was a lifelong Christian Scientist.
Preceded in death by her husband, Gerald, son Timothy H. Donoghue, and grandson, Christopher Donoghue.
Survived by a son and daughter-in-law W.T. (Bill) and his wife Christy Donoghue; daughter and son-in-law, Clare and Tommy Beck; five grandchildren, Charli Donoghue, Hillary Blackmon, Jeri Tippetts, Kevin Beck, Timothy H. Donoghue, Jr; and eight great grandchildren.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no funeral. She would like to be remembered for the good she brought to the world.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF IDA LAURA PARKS HUGGINS, DAUGHTER OF SOL AND LOUISE PARKS.
WORKING IN THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE, LOUISE MET GERALD T. DONOGHUE, A REPORTER WHO COVERED HORSE SHOW AND EQUINE EVENTS AS WELL AS GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS.
THEIR COURTSHIP WAS LITERALLY ON HORSEBACK. THEY RODE TOGETHER EACH AFTERNOON AT THE OLD IRA NIX STABLES. LOUISE HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER GENTLEMEN BUT GERRY WAS PERSISTANT. SHE FINALLY MARRIED HIM JANUARY 27, 1934.
ONE OF GERRY'S ASSIGNMENTS WAS TO COVER THE VISIT OF AN ARABIAN STALLION TO HOUSTON, A RARE BREED IN THOSE ENVIRONMENTS. PLEASED WITH THE ROTOGRAVURE COVERAGE, THE OWNER OFFERED TO GIVE A BREEDING, SO GERRY BOUGHT A PALAMINO MARE AND HAD HER BRED. THE FOUL WAS A FILLY.
IN 1942 THEY MOVED TO GOLIAD WITH THREE CHILDREN AND ONE HORSE, PURCHASING 500 ACRES OF LAND FOR $5000. THERE WERE TWO ROOMS UPSTAIRS AND TWO ROOMS DOWNSTAIRS WITH NO BATHROOM. THEY HAD A SCREENED PORCH THAT THEY LATER CONVERTED TO AN 8 X 8 KITCHEN.
GERRY WAS DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY IN 1943, AT THE AGE OF 38, JUST 9 MONTHS AFTER MOVING TO GOLIAD. WHILE STATIONED IN SAN ANTONIO, LOUISE AND THE THREE CHILDREN RAISED CATTLE AND VEGETABLES FOR THE WAR EFFORT.
FARMING WAS NOT THEIR FORTE, SO THE DONOGHUES TURNED TO REGISTERED HEREFORDS FOR A SHORT TIME. WHEN GERRY RETURNED FROM THE ARMY THREE YEARS LATER THE FAMILY WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION TO STAY IN GOLIAD OR RETURN TO HOUSTON. THE CHILDREN, THEN AGED 6, 8 AND 10, REFUSED TO LEAVE GOLIAD.
THE FILLY WAS BRED BACK TO AN ARABIAN, AND THUS BEGAN THE DONOGHUE'S INTEREST IN RAISING ARABIAN HORSES.
IN 1949, GERALD ACQUIRED THEIR FIRST PUREBRED ARABIAN AND BEGAN BREEDING SHOW HORSES IN THE 1950'S RECEIVING NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR HIS BREEDING PROGRAM.
THE DONOGHUE ARABIAN HORSE FARM IS FAMOUS, HAVING RACKED UP THOUSANDS OF RIBBONS AND ABOUT 750 TROPHIES. IT IS THE HOME OF BEAU IBN HANRAH, WHICH HAS STOOD AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN ARABIAN STALLIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
THE GOLIAD COUNTY COUNTRYSIDE IS WELL DESCRIBED IN WHEN PEACE COMES DROPPING SLOW, A BOOK ABOUT A BRUSH COUNTRY MAN RETURNING TO HIS HOME, WRITTEN BY GERALD T. DONOGHUE. URGED TO CONTINUE HIS WRITING, GERRY SAID HE RAISES BETTER HORSES THAN HE WRITES BOOKS.
∼Preceded in death by parents: W.O. Huggins & Ida Laura Parks Huggins
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
02 Apr 2003, Wed • Page 10
LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE—- Born on the Parks Ranch in Goliad County in 1908; passed away at her home in Goliad County on March 31, 2003.
Her Parents, WO. Huggins and Ida Laura Parks Huggins, lived in Houston where she was reared. She graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas, and attended the University of Texas in Austin. While working at the Houston Chronicle, she met her husband, Gerald T. Donoghue. They moved to Goliad in 1943 and later established The Donoghue Arabian Farm. Louise was actively involved in raising and showing Arabian Horses for over 30 years.
She was also active in the Girl Scouts and Paisano Girl Scout Council, The Goliad Garden Club, the Victoria Civic Theater and the Goliad Little Theater Group. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, and she helped many young people get college educations. She was a lifelong Christian Scientist.
Preceded in death by her husband, Gerald, son Timothy H. Donoghue, and grandson, Christopher Donoghue.
Survived by a son and daughter-in-law W.T. (Bill) and his wife Christy Donoghue; daughter and son-in-law, Clare and Tommy Beck; five grandchildren, Charli Donoghue, Hillary Blackmon, Jeri Tippetts, Kevin Beck, Timothy H. Donoghue, Jr; and eight great grandchildren.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no funeral. She would like to be remembered for the good she brought to the world.
LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE LIVED THE FIRST THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF HER LIFE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF IDA LAURA PARKS HUGGINS, DAUGHTER OF SOL AND LOUISE PARKS.
WORKING IN THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE, LOUISE MET GERALD T. DONOGHUE, A REPORTER WHO COVERED HORSE SHOW AND EQUINE EVENTS AS WELL AS GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS.
THEIR COURTSHIP WAS LITERALLY ON HORSEBACK. THEY RODE TOGETHER EACH AFTERNOON AT THE OLD IRA NIX STABLES. LOUISE HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER GENTLEMEN BUT GERRY WAS PERSISTANT. SHE FINALLY MARRIED HIM JANUARY 27, 1934.
ONE OF GERRY'S ASSIGNMENTS WAS TO COVER THE VISIT OF AN ARABIAN STALLION TO HOUSTON, A RARE BREED IN THOSE ENVIRONMENTS. PLEASED WITH THE ROTOGRAVURE COVERAGE, THE OWNER OFFERED TO GIVE A BREEDING, SO GERRY BOUGHT A PALAMINO MARE AND HAD HER BRED. THE FOUL WAS A FILLY.
IN 1942 THEY MOVED TO GOLIAD WITH THREE CHILDREN AND ONE HORSE, PURCHASING 500 ACRES OF LAND FOR $5000. THERE WERE TWO ROOMS UPSTAIRS AND TWO ROOMS DOWNSTAIRS WITH NO BATHROOM. THEY HAD A SCREENED PORCH THAT THEY LATER CONVERTED TO AN 8 X 8 KITCHEN.
GERRY WAS DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY IN 1943, AT THE AGE OF 38, JUST 9 MONTHS AFTER MOVING TO GOLIAD. WHILE STATIONED IN SAN ANTONIO, LOUISE AND THE THREE CHILDREN RAISED CATTLE AND VEGETABLES FOR THE WAR EFFORT.
FARMING WAS NOT THEIR FORTE, SO THE DONOGHUES TURNED TO REGISTERED HEREFORDS FOR A SHORT TIME. WHEN GERRY RETURNED FROM THE ARMY THREE YEARS LATER THE FAMILY WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION TO STAY IN GOLIAD OR RETURN TO HOUSTON. THE CHILDREN, THEN AGED 6, 8 AND 10, REFUSED TO LEAVE GOLIAD.
THE FILLY WAS BRED BACK TO AN ARABIAN, AND THUS BEGAN THE DONOGHUE'S INTEREST IN RAISING ARABIAN HORSES.
IN 1949, GERALD ACQUIRED THEIR FIRST PUREBRED ARABIAN AND BEGAN BREEDING SHOW HORSES IN THE 1950'S RECEIVING NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR HIS BREEDING PROGRAM.
THE DONOGHUE ARABIAN HORSE FARM IS FAMOUS, HAVING RACKED UP THOUSANDS OF RIBBONS AND ABOUT 750 TROPHIES. IT IS THE HOME OF BEAU IBN HANRAH, WHICH HAS STOOD AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN ARABIAN STALLIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
THE GOLIAD COUNTY COUNTRYSIDE IS WELL DESCRIBED IN WHEN PEACE COMES DROPPING SLOW, A BOOK ABOUT A BRUSH COUNTRY MAN RETURNING TO HIS HOME, WRITTEN BY GERALD T. DONOGHUE. URGED TO CONTINUE HIS WRITING, GERRY SAID HE RAISES BETTER HORSES THAN HE WRITES BOOKS.
∼Preceded in death by parents: W.O. Huggins & Ida Laura Parks Huggins
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
02 Apr 2003, Wed • Page 10
LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE—- Born on the Parks Ranch in Goliad County in 1908; passed away at her home in Goliad County on March 31, 2003.
Her Parents, WO. Huggins and Ida Laura Parks Huggins, lived in Houston where she was reared. She graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas, and attended the University of Texas in Austin. While working at the Houston Chronicle, she met her husband, Gerald T. Donoghue. They moved to Goliad in 1943 and later established The Donoghue Arabian Farm. Louise was actively involved in raising and showing Arabian Horses for over 30 years.
She was also active in the Girl Scouts and Paisano Girl Scout Council, The Goliad Garden Club, the Victoria Civic Theater and the Goliad Little Theater Group. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, and she helped many young people get college educations. She was a lifelong Christian Scientist.
Preceded in death by her husband, Gerald, son Timothy H. Donoghue, and grandson, Christopher Donoghue.
Survived by a son and daughter-in-law W.T. (Bill) and his wife Christy Donoghue; daughter and son-in-law, Clare and Tommy Beck; five grandchildren, Charli Donoghue, Hillary Blackmon, Jeri Tippetts, Kevin Beck, Timothy H. Donoghue, Jr; and eight great grandchildren.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no funeral. She would like to be remembered for the good she brought to the world.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF IDA LAURA PARKS HUGGINS, DAUGHTER OF SOL AND LOUISE PARKS.
WORKING IN THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE, LOUISE MET GERALD T. DONOGHUE, A REPORTER WHO COVERED HORSE SHOW AND EQUINE EVENTS AS WELL AS GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS.
THEIR COURTSHIP WAS LITERALLY ON HORSEBACK. THEY RODE TOGETHER EACH AFTERNOON AT THE OLD IRA NIX STABLES. LOUISE HAD BEEN IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER GENTLEMEN BUT GERRY WAS PERSISTANT. SHE FINALLY MARRIED HIM JANUARY 27, 1934.
ONE OF GERRY'S ASSIGNMENTS WAS TO COVER THE VISIT OF AN ARABIAN STALLION TO HOUSTON, A RARE BREED IN THOSE ENVIRONMENTS. PLEASED WITH THE ROTOGRAVURE COVERAGE, THE OWNER OFFERED TO GIVE A BREEDING, SO GERRY BOUGHT A PALAMINO MARE AND HAD HER BRED. THE FOUL WAS A FILLY.
IN 1942 THEY MOVED TO GOLIAD WITH THREE CHILDREN AND ONE HORSE, PURCHASING 500 ACRES OF LAND FOR $5000. THERE WERE TWO ROOMS UPSTAIRS AND TWO ROOMS DOWNSTAIRS WITH NO BATHROOM. THEY HAD A SCREENED PORCH THAT THEY LATER CONVERTED TO AN 8 X 8 KITCHEN.
GERRY WAS DRAFTED INTO THE ARMY IN 1943, AT THE AGE OF 38, JUST 9 MONTHS AFTER MOVING TO GOLIAD. WHILE STATIONED IN SAN ANTONIO, LOUISE AND THE THREE CHILDREN RAISED CATTLE AND VEGETABLES FOR THE WAR EFFORT.
FARMING WAS NOT THEIR FORTE, SO THE DONOGHUES TURNED TO REGISTERED HEREFORDS FOR A SHORT TIME. WHEN GERRY RETURNED FROM THE ARMY THREE YEARS LATER THE FAMILY WAS FORCED TO MAKE A DECISION TO STAY IN GOLIAD OR RETURN TO HOUSTON. THE CHILDREN, THEN AGED 6, 8 AND 10, REFUSED TO LEAVE GOLIAD.
THE FILLY WAS BRED BACK TO AN ARABIAN, AND THUS BEGAN THE DONOGHUE'S INTEREST IN RAISING ARABIAN HORSES.
IN 1949, GERALD ACQUIRED THEIR FIRST PUREBRED ARABIAN AND BEGAN BREEDING SHOW HORSES IN THE 1950'S RECEIVING NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR HIS BREEDING PROGRAM.
THE DONOGHUE ARABIAN HORSE FARM IS FAMOUS, HAVING RACKED UP THOUSANDS OF RIBBONS AND ABOUT 750 TROPHIES. IT IS THE HOME OF BEAU IBN HANRAH, WHICH HAS STOOD AS ONE OF THE TOP TEN ARABIAN STALLIONS IN THE COUNTRY.
THE GOLIAD COUNTY COUNTRYSIDE IS WELL DESCRIBED IN WHEN PEACE COMES DROPPING SLOW, A BOOK ABOUT A BRUSH COUNTRY MAN RETURNING TO HIS HOME, WRITTEN BY GERALD T. DONOGHUE. URGED TO CONTINUE HIS WRITING, GERRY SAID HE RAISES BETTER HORSES THAN HE WRITES BOOKS.
∼Preceded in death by parents: W.O. Huggins & Ida Laura Parks Huggins
Victoria Advocate
Victoria, Texas
02 Apr 2003, Wed • Page 10
LOUISE HUGGINS DONOGHUE—- Born on the Parks Ranch in Goliad County in 1908; passed away at her home in Goliad County on March 31, 2003.
Her Parents, WO. Huggins and Ida Laura Parks Huggins, lived in Houston where she was reared. She graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas, and attended the University of Texas in Austin. While working at the Houston Chronicle, she met her husband, Gerald T. Donoghue. They moved to Goliad in 1943 and later established The Donoghue Arabian Farm. Louise was actively involved in raising and showing Arabian Horses for over 30 years.
She was also active in the Girl Scouts and Paisano Girl Scout Council, The Goliad Garden Club, the Victoria Civic Theater and the Goliad Little Theater Group. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, and she helped many young people get college educations. She was a lifelong Christian Scientist.
Preceded in death by her husband, Gerald, son Timothy H. Donoghue, and grandson, Christopher Donoghue.
Survived by a son and daughter-in-law W.T. (Bill) and his wife Christy Donoghue; daughter and son-in-law, Clare and Tommy Beck; five grandchildren, Charli Donoghue, Hillary Blackmon, Jeri Tippetts, Kevin Beck, Timothy H. Donoghue, Jr; and eight great grandchildren.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no funeral. She would like to be remembered for the good she brought to the world.
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