Obituary

Funeral services for Gladys Rieff Hudgins, 87, will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Carrol Green and Dr. Gene Meacham officiating. Burial will be in Hale Center Cemetery by Freeman-Abell Funeral Home. Mrs. Hudgins died Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, at her residence. She was born Aug. 19, 1917, in West Fork, Ark. She married Earl Brooks Hudgins on Jan. 22, 1946, in Lubbock and they moved to Hale Center as newlyweds. He died Feb. 22, 1963. She was involved in RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) at the Hale County Farm and Ranch Museum and the Hale Center Senior Citizens Association. She was a member of First Baptist Church where she served as nursery director and taught the 5-year-old class for more than 40 years. She was employed at the Hale Center School Library and the Hale Center Public Library. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Earl and Sue Hudgins of Wolfforth; two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Ron Warren and Janice and Gary Abercrombie, all of Plainview; two brothers: Henry Rieff of Cotton Center and Glen Rieff of Plainview; five sisters, Naomi Weathers and Edith Sims, both of Plainview, Opal Barnes of Amarillo, Mildred Hammitt of Hale Center and Ruby Teeter of Little Rock, Ark.; and six grandchildren, Amanda Hudgins, Wesley Warren, Doug Warren, Cody Abercrombie, Lauren Abercrombie and Todd Abercrombie. A sister, Evelyn Allen, died in 1993. The family suggests memorial contributions to First Baptist Church or Hale Center Senior Citizens.