Big things come in small packages, and Lenore Hughes is proof! An energetic little somebody, Lenore fills a room with sunshine.
   Though she originally hails from Michigan, Lenore has had a long-standing love affair with Florida that dates back to childhood when her mother would take her and her sister and brothers to the Sunshine State for vacation. The family eventually moved permanently to Tampa where Lenore completed her remaining years of high school.
   Soon after graduation a blind date with the “best-looking guy in the Air Force” sky-rocketed her into sixty years of successful married life. The couple moved back from Florida to Michigan where her husband, Bob, had found a position with the BASF Chemical Company. They later relocated to Princeton, New Jersey to pursue opportunities with another chemical company 
   After their daughter, Patti, was born in 1949,  Lenore, with help from her mother who pitched in to care for her granddaughter, got a job with Ford Motor Company.  She worked first in the Accounting Office, then was transferred to the Cashier’s Office as secretary to the Head Cashier. For thirteen years until her son, Todd, was born, she was “treated like a Princess” by the five men in that section.

   Once more she quit work until her mother again volunteered to take charge of the children. This time Lenore found a job as a Mail Teller at Security Bank and Trust where for seven years she handled all the money and checks that passed hrough that department.

   The birth of the couple’s third child, Chad, shaped a new direction for her. She resigned from the bank to care for her son. When Bob eventually retired, the couple decided to pursue their dream of a Florida lifestyle. This dream materialized twenty-five years ago when they bought the last model home on the 6th tee in the newly-developed Beacon Woods Community.
   Education has always had top priority for Lenore, and she and Bob started to save for each child’s college education from the day they were born. “Giving our children the best possible education has been our greatest achievement,” she claims and, in truth, the facts attest to this. Patti Jean is Assistant Marketing Director for a large company in Nashville; Todd, with a Ph.D. in Romance Languages, is a Professor at Vanderbilt University, and Chad, a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and Satellite Engineer, helped build the recently launched weather satellite.
   Over the years, Bob’s work had provided numerous opportunities to travel. Such possibilities did not stop at retirement and, “bitten by the travel bug,” Lenore and her husband continued to explore Europe, Canada, Asia, and the United States.
   When Bob died in 2007, Lenore took refuge in her hobbies and friends.  Bridge, a game she had learned when she was first married, became her salvation. Like so many other courageous persons, she picked up the pieces and went on with her life. Aided by the “gift of gab” which she uses freely to set people at ease wherever she goes, she has become a valuable part of the fabric of the Beacon Woods community.