Calvin T. Hughes Jr. M.D.

Calvin T. Hughes, Jr., M.D., 88, of West Hartford died at his home on January 26, 2015. Dr. Hughes was a retired ophthalmologist who practiced in Hartford. He grew up in Southington and was a graduate of Loomis School. He served with the U.S. Navy prior to graduating Yale University, Class of 1950, and Harvard University Medical School. He served internships at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA, and John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He went to study Ophthalmology at Washington University in Saint Louis, MO, prior to setting up practice in Hartford. He was a world traveler, visiting all seven continents and did a term of service on the international, charitable hospital ship, HOPE, while being an innovator of cornea transplant surgery in Hartford, where he was a prominent ophthalmologist for decades. Cal was a world-class skier, skiing the Swiss and Austrian Alps as well as in Colorado and Utah. He was an avid sailor, sailing his 40' Swedish-built sloop out of Niantic. He also excelled as a classical pianist and was devoted to all animals, especially birds. He is survived by cousins, Lucia Doud Wallace of Willsboro, NY, Dr. Cynthia Day Wallace of Willsboro, NY and Geneva, Switzerland; Margaret Ellis Wood of Philadelphia, PA, John Arden Ellis of Martha's Vineyard, MA and Calvin Gogerty of Idyllwild, CA; and several close friends. Services and burial in the family plot will be private. Memorial gifts may be made to the United States Foundation of the University of the Valley of Guatemala, P.O. Box 30, Princeton, NJ 08542, of which Dr. Hughes was a benefactor because of his interest in the Mayan people. Taylor & Modeen Funeral Home, West Hartford has care of arrangements.