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   Rick L. Hudson
   
   SAYRE, Okla. - Rick L. Hudson, 45, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001.
   
   Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Sayre First Baptist Church with
   Andy   Taylor   and  Daryle  Perry  officiating.  Burial  will  be  in
   Sayre-Doxey Cemetery by Rose Chapel Funeral Service.
   
   Mr.  Hudson  was  born  Feb.  26, 1956, in Dallas to Kathryn and James
   Hudson.  He  moved  with  his  parents  to  Marshall  in 1970 where he
   graduated  from  high school in 1974. He graduated from the University
   of  Texas  with  a  bachelor's  degree  in  management  in 1978 before
   attending  Sam  Houston  State in Huntsville, Texas, where he received
   his master's of science degree in agri-business in 1984.
   
   He  was  married  to  Janis Kay (Taylor) Hudson in Amarillo on Oct. 3,
   1993.  He  began  his  corrections  career  in  1981  with  the  Texas
   Department  of  Corrections  as  a  corrections  officer. He worked up
   through the ranks at one medium and four maximum custody facilities in
   Texas.
   
   He  last  served  in  Texas  as  an assistant warden at the William P.
   Clements  Jr.  Facility  in  Amarillo. In January of 1996, he left the
   public  sector  and  joined  Corrections  Corp.  of America. He was an
   assistant  warden  at CCA'S Winnfield Louisiana and Cushing facilities
   before  being  appointed as warden of North Fork Correctional Facility
   at Sayre in August 1997.
   
   In  summer  2000,  he  became an auditor for CCA. In November 2000, he
   became  warden  of the Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia,
   N.M.  He was an active member of the Sayre Rotary Club and was honored
   in  2001  as  a  Paul  Harris  Fellow.  He  was  a  member  of Trinity
   Fellowship.
   
   He was preceded in death by his grandparents.
   
   Survivors  include  his wife, Jan; three daughters, Kealan, Taylor and
   Emily; a son, Cooper; his parents, Jimmy and Kathryn Hudson of Sulphur
   Springs,  Texas;  a  brother,  Gary  Hudson and wife, Jackie, of Caddo
   Mills, Texas; his brothers and sisters-in-law, Sue and Calvin Bradley,
   Pat  Rea,  Curt  and Lorrie Taylor and Becky and Johnny Parker, all of
   Amarillo,  Gary and Judy Taylor of Yorktown, Texas, and Jack and Barby
   Moran of Atlanta; and a host of relatives and friends.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 23, 2001