She was twice married to James Mathew Hudgins Sr., Jim, of Roanoke and many years later to Edwin Versel Vaughn, Jack, of Pulaski.

Jim very proudly served in WW2, private first class, Company 1, in the 116th Infantry. He survived Normandy, and was honored with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Expert Combat Infantry Badge, and five others. He is interred in the Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors and 21-gun salute.

Jack was a gentleman farmer who raised beef cattle his entire adult life on multiple farms in Pulaski. He was also elected to the Board of Supervisors for two consecutive terms. They were married for 22 years and traveled extensively, to Europe, Hawaii, and especially in a mobile home, around the U.S.

Mom was also blessed to have met and had another life partner with Dewey Wilson, very well known as the principal of Pulaski County High School for his entire career. He was honored to have a street named in his honor at the high school, Dewey Wilson Way. They also had a fondness for travel, in mobile homes, and traveled much of their years together, including winters in Florida, and once a month-long journey to Alaska.

Mom was unique in her early life to become a professional woman as a radiologist technician and practiced as such her entire career. Unique as she was divorced early when her two sons were young, Gregory Wade Hudgins, 12, and “Chip” James Matthew Hudgins Jr., 15. And at times, for many years, she worked two jobs, to raise her boys to lack nothing.

In 1975 Mom accepted a position as an X-ray technician at Pulaski Community Hospital. It was then that she met Jack Vaughn, a widower. They married in 1978, and Jack built her a lovely home on a gorgeous hillside farm with the best views in Pulaski. They were very active in Jack’s Methodist church in lovely Newbern, not a mile away. And as a supervisor, they led an active life in the community where Jack was very well known.

Mom was blessed in her life with her own family from Collierstown outside Lexington. Her mother, Pearl Mae Potter, was a longtime principal of Effinger Elementary School. She married Howard Johnson Wade Sr., a miller of the Wades Mill on Colliers Creek. She had a beloved sister, Virginia Mae Wade, Gini Mae, and brother, Howard Johnson Wade Jr., Jackie. He was an honored Virginia state trooper for life, a farmer and farm owner, hunter, fisherman, coin and gun collector, happily married, and very active in his Roanoke Presbyterian Church.

The Potter family goes back seven generations of beef cattle farmers, and Mom was very close with her contemporary Potter cousins. Today they still are cattle farmers, with Buffalo Creek Beef. Her sister, Gini Mae, married Gilbert Feinman of Lynchburg; they owned the well-known Vogue fine clothier. Her two children were Deborah Feinman Johnson and Mike Feinman. Later in mom’s life, our annual holidays on the farm were always full of people, and always with Deb and her children, Stuart and Neely Johnson, and often with Mike Feinman and his daughter Melissa.

Her survivors: son, Greg W Hudgins, Alexandria, Deb Johnson, Neely Johnson of Lynchburg, Stuart and Madson Johnson family, Richmond, Mike Feinman, Bealeton, Melissa Feinman, Peachtree City, Ga., Joe and Sylvia Feinman family, Lexington Park, Md.

A celebration of life and light lunch reception will be held May 23 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Collierstown Presbyterian Church. Please RSVP (for the caterer) by May 11 for this special time in Mom’s honor. [email protected] No gifts or flowers please; if inclined, please give to a charity of choice, in her honor.

Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.seaglefuneralhome. com.

Arrangements are by Seagle Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Pulaski, (540) 9801700. NG