Select Biographies: Rev. Hugh B. Fouke

1937-1940, Senior Pastor

 

Fouke came to Oklahoma City  from Boise, Idaho on Jan.15, 1937. He had previously filled the pastorate at Salem, Oregon before going to Idaho. He was accompanied by his wife and sons James and Myron and a daughter Betty.

 

While in Oklahoma City he was the president of the Oklahoma City Peace Council, was active in the Oklahoma Federation for Constitutional Rights, a member of good standing of the board of Goodwill Industries, helped organize the Oklahoma City Council of Churches, was a leader in the Ministerial Alliance and chair of the committee sponsoring union church services each summer in the City.

 

He left Oklahoma City to take the church in Emporia, Kansas and died in Indiana in 1979.