RETIRED BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, PHILANTHROPIST, FORMER MAYOR J. HUGH LOGAN DIES

James Hugh Logan, a former mayor of Cape Girardeau who helped found the local United Way and worked on behalf of many charitable organizations, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was 95.

"I think volunteers are an absolute necessity in this world," the retired business executive and civic leader said earlier this year after being honored with the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Award in recognition of his philanthropy.

He was born April 9, 1900, in Chicago, son of Evan B. and Austie Snodgrass Logan. He and Marietta Breeding were married Sept. 15, 1935, in Memphis, Tenn. She died July 8, 1992.

Logan graduated from Elizabeth High School in Elizabeth, Ill., and received a degree in accounting from a business college in Quincy, Ill.

He was employed in office positions at Blodgett and at Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich., before the Great Depression.

Logan moved to Cape Girardeau and in February 1934 joined a group of businessmen in the operation of Moon Distributing Co. About a year later he went to Little Rock, Ark., to manage a division of Moon Distributing. He moved back to Cape Girardeau in 1939 and was manager of Moon Distributing from then until retiring in May 1965.

He was one of the organizers of the Cape Girardeau United Way in 1955. Logan was a volunteer and served on the board of directors, was president of the board and headed the fund campaign prior to serving as the organization's executive director from 1973-79. He continued to volunteer for the United Way until his death.

He and his wife were active in Girl Scout work and he was chairman of the Sadie Camp Fund Campaign in 1966. He was treasurer of Cape Girardeau Country Club from 1965-81, and worked with the Cerebral Palsy Telethon in 1973.

Logan served on the City Council from 1965-70, and was mayor in 1967-68. He was a member and secretary of the Charter Commission in 1981.

Logan received the Exchange Club Golden Deeds Award in 1967 and the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Award in January 1995.

He served on the Southeast Hospital Board of Trustees from 1967-79, was executive director of Southeast Hospital Foundation from 1977-85, and was president of the foundation three years. He was a member of the foundation's board of directors, and an honorary member of the hospital's board of trustees.

Logan was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club, Tower Club, Cape Shrine Club and Moolah Temple Shrine, Capaha Scottish Rite Club and Cape Girardeau Country Club.

Survivors include nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and three sisters.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 5-8 p.m. today.

Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the chapel, with the Rev. Miles White officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park.