Donna G. Hudson

Donna attended the Sidney Lanier Grade School, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School and Central High School, all of which are located Tulsa. Donna graduated from Central High School in 1946.

At Oklahoma A&M (now OSU), Donna pledged with the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She graduated from Oklahoma A&M in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Home Economics.

After college, Donna worked for the Midwestern Oil Co. in Tulsa. She met her husband, David V. Hudson, at the First Presbyterian Church in Tulsa. They were married there on the 27th of September 1952. Their daughter, Janet Diane Hudson, was born in February of 1956.

David's work took the family from Tulsa to Houston, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey and back to Houston. She has lived in Houston for the past 40 years. During all this time, she has kept in touch with her Tulsa and New Jersey friends.

Wherever she lived, Donna was involved in her daughter's activities, Theta alumni functions, Kappa mother’s club and garden clubs. She loved to play bridge, participate in church activities and attend the Houston Symphony. Dave and Donna were youth group leaders at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. In recent years, they were active members of First Presbyterian Church.

Donna was well known for the hilarious, true stories of everyday predicaments in which she found herself. Donna had a wonderful personality, easily making new friends where ever she went. She had many close friends, whom she would gladly help in their time of need.

Her greatest love was her family. Her daughter, Janet, resides in Fort Collins, Colorado, with her husband, Tim Colton. They have two sons, Greg, age 24, and Christopher, age 21. She thoroughly enjoyed visiting them whenever she could. Donna loved to watch her grandsons grow. She was devoted to them and took great pride in their accomplishments, particularly when they earned the rank of Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts. She also enjoyed her nephews, Mark and John. She always asked about them and their families.

Donna was preceded in death by her beloved husband, David. She is survived by her daughter, Janet and her husband, Tim; grandsons, Greg and Christopher; her brother, Dwayne and his wife, Awilda Godsey, of Tulsa.

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from half-past five o’clock in the afternoon until half-past seven o’clock in the evening on Sunday, the 15th of April, in the Library and Grand Foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The memorial service is to be conducted at half-past two o’clock in the afternoon on Monday, the 16th of April, in the Sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main Street in Houston. Immediately following, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the adjacent Fellowship Hall.

Prior to the service, the family will have gathered for a private interment service at Memorial Oaks Cemetery in Houston.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions in Donna’s name may be directed to the Houston Symphony, 615 Louisiana St., Ste. 102, Houston, TX, 77002; or to the American Red Cross, PO Box 4002018,

Des Moines, IA, 50340-2018.