Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hudgins, Curtis Randolph, Sr. December 25, 1959
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Virginian-Pilot December 27, 1959
NORFOLK — Curtis Randolph Hudgins Sr., 79, retired cotton broker formerly with 
Fergus Reid & Co., died Christmas Day at 9:15 a.m, in a Norfolk hospital. He 
resided at 704 Maury Place.
A native of Norfolk, son of Alexander Randolph and Mrs. Virginia Hoffman 
Hudgins, he was widely known in the city's business, civic and religious life. 
His late father served in the Confederate Army with Company F., Fifth Virginia 
Infantry.
He was married in 1909 to Lillian Mabel Smith, who has since died.
The body will be taken from H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments to First 
Presbyterian Church for a funeral service today at 3:30 p.m. by the Rev. Edward 
H. Jones, DD, pastor. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
A class of 1899 graduate of Norfolk High School, he went right to work for 
Fergus Reid & Co. as an office boy. Subsequently, he became office manager and 
remained with the cotton firm until it was dissolved at the death of Mr. Reid in 
November, 1941.
He was a director of Chesapeake Ferries, Inc. from 1942 to 1948, and director of 
Norfolk General Hospital from 1942 to 1955.
For more than 20 years, he was an elder of First Presbyterian Church and was its 
treasurer for eight years. He also was past president of Brotherhood Bible 
Class, 1916-1918.
One of the earlier members of Norfolk Rotary Club, he at one time was treasurer. 
He was director of the Rotary-sponsored Boys Club for 10 years and treasurer for 
two years. He helped formulate plans for the opening of the present Boys Club on 
Colonial avenue.
                   Active In Scouting
He had been active in Scouting, serving as treasurer of Tidewater Council, BSA, 
and counselor to the troop once sponsored by First Presbyterian Church. He 
received a Silver Beaver Award in 1944 for his work on behalf of Scouting.
In recent years, he had spent part of the year at his Mathews County home, 
"Tenacres," which is on a tract owned by the Hudgins family for more than 120 
years. It was restored in 1941.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Mary Ashley Hudgins Rice of Summit, N.J.; one 
son, C. Randolph Hudgins Jr. of Norfolk and five grandchildren, Misses Margaret 
Randolph Rice and Judith Rice, both of Summit, N.J., Misses Jane Barrom Hudgins, 
Anna Brooke Hudgins and C. Randolph Hudgins III, all of Norfolk.

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