Barbara J. Hughes, 34, of 1701 Tallac Street, died Tuesday, January 18, 1977, in Philadelphia, Pa.

     Mrs. Hughes was born in Oakland in 1942. She moved to Napa as a young girl and attended schools here.  For the past two years she had worked as a Realtor for Silverado Realtors.

     Survivors include two daughters, Lori Ann and Pamela Jane, both of Napa; a son, Darren Richard of Oregon and two sisters, Linda Elaine Allen of Napa and Mrs. Gloria Jean Williamson of Oakland.

     Private family services will be held on Friday at the Chapel of Richard Pierce Funeral Service with the Rev. Erwin Bollinger officiating.

     Inurnment will be in the Tulocay Cemetery Masoleum.

Napan is Slain in Philadelphia

     Barbara Hughes, 34, daughter of Doris Allen and the late Robert Allen, co-owners of Allen and Benedict Furniture, was found strangled to death in a hotel room, here, Tuesday, January 18, l977.

     The body of Mrs. Hughes, a Realtor with Silverado Realty of Napa, was found about 2:45 p.m. by a hotel chambermaid, police said.  She was undressed and covered with a bed sheet except for her feet.

     Police said the victim had been strangled and had cuts about the neck. She had been dead for about 10 to 20 hours.

     Investigators said there is no evidence of a sexual attack and no signs of forced entry or a struggle. No motive for the slaying has been determined.

     Philadelphia police said they found a purse containing a credit card held by Mrs. Hughes in the eighth floor hotel room registered to her.

     They positively identified Mrs. Hughes with the help of photographs obtained through California police agencies.

     Mrs. Hughes, divorced with three children, had reported being registered at the Penn Center Inn, a hotel in the nicer section of Philadelphia, about 1 p.m. Sunday.

     She was on a month long vacation from her job as Realtor for Silverado Realty in Napa, according to her supervisor Pat Calhoun.

     Ms. Calhoun said Mrs. Hughes left at Christmas and planned to be gone for 30 days. She did not say where she was going or who she was with Ms. Calhoun said.

     Police believe she may have been in the company of at least one other person, possibly two. Her car, parked in the hotel lot prior to the discovery of the body, has since disappeared.

     Investigators have put out an all points bulletin for the brown 1975 Ford sedan.

 Police Seeking Two People In Napa Woman's Death

     Police here are looking for an Oakland woman and a Philadelphia man for questioning in the strangulation death of Napa Realtor Barbara Hughes, 34, 1701 Tallac Avenue.

     Judith Bristol, 32, of Oakland, and Ronald Kesting, 28, of Philadelphia, are believed to have been with Mrs. Hughes at the Penn Center Inn prior to her death.

     Her nude body was found by a hotel chambermaid Tuesday, January 18, 1977, partially covered with a bed sheet. She had been strangled and had been dead for 10 to 20 hours.

     Her late model brown sedan, license plate 858 NFQ, had disappeared from the hotel parking lot.

     A search for Bristol and Kesting is concentrated in Pennsylvania and in California.

     Motive for the murder has not yet been determined, according to Philadelphia Police Captain Donald Patterson. He said, however, robbery is a good possibility.

     Mrs. Hughes' two companions, who may have been with her when she left Napa early this month for a vacation, are described as follows:

     Bristol: white, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, weighing about 125 pounds, light brown hair.

     Kesting: 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing about 149 pounds with short dark hair, one pierced ear and a tattoo of an eagle on his left arm. He is either white or a light Negro.