Carl LaRoye Hughes

A Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 P.M., Sunday, October 30, 2016 at the First Baptist Church of Lucas, 100 Stinson Rd., Allen, TX 75002 with Pastor Jerry Reynolds officiating.Carl LaRoye Hughes Jr. was called home to be with the Lord on October 23rd, 2016 in Plano, Texas at the age of 51. He was born on August 17th, 1965 in Riverside, California at March Air Force Base to Priscilla and Carl Hughes.

His Family and friends knew him as Tiger, LaRoye and of course, RoyE.

Roye was a man of tremendous integrity and was admired by most that knew him. He professed Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior as a child andrecommittedhis life to Jesus as an adult many years ago.

Roye's faith was put to the test on February 14th, 2011 when he was diagnosed with Stage IV Lung Cancer, which hadmetastasized tohis brain, liver, spleen and spine. He was given a mere six months to live. But those doctors didn’t know Roye and his trust in the Lord.

Roye never lost faith, giving God all the glory in this battle with cancer. Roye would say he had nothing to lose and everything to gain. He knew that while he was living on borrowed time, each day was a blessing and an opportunity to love his family a little more and to strengthen his faith a little firmer. He always lived each day to the fullest. He didn't let cancer stop him from doing what he wanted to do, which was to love Jesus and his family.

Cancer is what he had. It wasn't who he was. He lived that maxim everyday.

Roye graduated from South Garland High school in 1983. He joined the United States Air Force in 1985. He was stationed at Lowry AFB in Denver, Colorado where he was a Munitions Systems Specialist. He was charged with the assembly, arming and disarming, transportation and processing of non-nuclear munitions. After his regular tour, Roye enlisted in the USAF Reserve.

He worked in the telecommunications industry for over 24 years. During that time, he was employed with Plano Cellular, Sprint and Radio Shack. In 2006 he became a loan officer for Nationstar Mortgage where he helped to establish the firstHAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) for Nationstar. He retired in 2011 in order to devote his full energy to the fight ahead of him.

Roye loved bowling, racquetball, softball, golfing, hunting, archery, reading, watching movies, traveling and spending time with his family.

He wanted for us to know the Lord as he did and these were some of the verses that guided his life:

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NKJV)

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Romans 14:7-9 (NKJV)

7 None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.

8 If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord;

So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

2 Corinthians 5:1 (NKJV)

1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Carl LaRoye Hughes Jr. was proceeded in death by his father Carl LaRoye Hughes Sr. He is survived by his mother, Priscilla Hughes, his wife Tonja Hughes, son Joshua Ryan David Hughes and daughter Carlie Wade Hughes. He is also survived by his brother Anthony Hughes and his wife Susan, their daughters and son. He is remembered by his brother-in-law David Long and his sons. Roye had many aunts, uncles and cousins in California, Louisiana and Texas.

2 Timothy 4:7-8 (NKJV)

7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith;

8 Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.