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Submitted: 11/3/21 • Approved: 11/3/21 • Last Updated: 11/6/21 • R466737-G466737-S3
Oden Lester
August 6, 1916-March 10, 1997
Lois Irene
December 22, 1916-March 15, 2008
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Obituary Oden Lester
Oden Lester Hudson, 80, died Monday, March 10, 1997.
Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Wheeler Cemetery, with the Rev. Mike Dyer, pastor of the Maranatha Church at Briscoe, officiating. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home.
Mr. Hudson was a longtime resident of Briscoe. He was born in Childress County, and his family moved to Wheeler in 1925. He married Lois Vaughn in 1933 at Wheeler.
He was a self-employed trucking transporter all his life. He was a Methodist and member of the Moose Lodge at Pampa. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Annette Hudson, in 1942, and by a son, Phillip Jesse Hudson, in 1946.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Melvin "Leeroy" Hudson of Arlington and Ray Hudson of Briscoe; a daughter, Sharon Grandstaff of Amarillo; his mother, Mary Hudson of Amarillo; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. The family suggests memorials to Harrington Cancer Center or a favorite charity.
(Published in Amarillo News-Globe Mar. 11, 1997)
*Obituary Lois Irene
WHEELER - Lois Irene Vaughn Hudson, 91, died Saturday, March 15, 2008, in Amarillo.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the United Methodist Church with Aaron Laverty, pastor of Gageby, Texas, and the Rev. Mike Dyer of Amarillo, officiating. Burial will be in the Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
Lois Hudson was born Dec. 22, 1916, in Hopkins County to M. H. and Effie Haddox Vaughn and lived most of her life in Briscoe. She married Oden Lester Hudson on Dec. 22, 1933, in Wheeler. She was a member of the Methodist church. She worked for the school cafeteria in Briscoe during the 1950s and 1960s. She and her husband owned and operated a milk transportation business from 1948 to 1970. After they sold their business, she worked in the Briscoe store and later became the Post Mistress of Briscoe. She retired from the Post Office.
Some called her Granny Lois, some called her Ma Lois, and some called her Mom, and all of her family loved her and visited as often as they could. Lois loved being around her family and often traveled great distances so that she could see them. Lois Irene Vaughn Hudson lived at Park Place Towers Retirement Center.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Oden Hudson; two children; 11 brothers and sisters; and a daughter-in-law.
Survivors include two sons, Melvin Leroy Hudson and wife Laverne of Arlington and Ray Hudson and wife Glenda of Briscoe; a daughter, Sharon Bertrand and husband Harold of Panhandle; a brother, E.T. Vaughn of Latonia; a sister, Margie Meadows of Wheeler; two brothers-in-law, Ernest Evans of Dallas and Leonard Fulks of Amarillo; 15 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Sign the online guest book at www.wrightfuneraldirectors.com.
Amarillo Globe-News, March 17, 2008
Contributed on 11/3/21
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