| Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial |
| Claude Franklin Sanders October 21, 1910 – March 14, 1998 Coach Tenure: 1940? |
| Mr. Sanders was born October 21, 1910 Michie, McNairy County, Tennessee, son of John C. and Josie Sanders. While serving as a coach for Hughes High School, he met his future wife, Ara Ruby Baldridge, also a Hughes teacher, and they married at Hughes on June 02, 1940. Mr. Sanders served as high school principal at Stuttgart and Hot Springs and as superintendent for the Osceola, Arkansas, school system. He and Mrs. Sanders also taught in Alabama and Florida. He died March 14, 1998, in Memphis, burial in Pearson Cemetery, Pearson, Cleburne County, Arkansas. |