FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Jan Hughes never thought she’d be alive at 88, but she is.<\/p>\n
What started as a birthday lunch with her daughters and best friend turned into a chance to share a lifetime of memories. Hughes has four children, 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, with two more on the way.<\/p>\n
“God’s blessed me with a wonderful life and lots of wonderful children, grandchildren, and I’m expecting my seventh and eighth great-grandchildren in April,” Hughes said.<\/p>\n
Her love story has lasted 67 years. But Hughes’ story is about so much more than the family she’s built.<\/p>\n
She’s the original Ivory Soap baby, a breast cancer survivor, and a founding member of the Junior League of Fort Myers, which dates back to the 60s. She’s called Southwest Florida home for 62 years, watching a small town grow into the community we know today.<\/p>\n
“We would have to go to Miami to shop or see a movie. In fact, it was just a little town when we moved here,” Hughes said.<\/p>\n
While so much around her has changed, the things that matter most to Hughes never have. Her family, her friends and above all, her faith.<\/p>\n
“I never knew a day that I didn’t believe in God and Jesus, and that’s my secret,” Hughes said.<\/p>\n
Throughout 88 years of life, 67 years of marriage and generations of love, Hughes says the secret to a beautiful life is simple.<\/p>\n
“Well, believing in God and putting all your worries on His lap, and I just turn to God whenever I have a problem, and He’s been good about it so far,” Hughes said.<\/p>\n
After spending just a few minutes with Hughes at WINK’s recent WINK Listens event, it’s easy to see she’s spent a lifetime counting her blessings. But to the people lucky enough to know her, she’s one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Jan Hughes never thought she’d be alive at 88, but she is. What…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,170344,170343],"class_list":["post-434738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-jan-hughes","tag-junior-league-of-fort-myers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}