Death
In 1998, Hudson married the former Catherine Loyd Franks (1919-2012), a Shreveport native, a graduate of C.E. Byrd High School and Centenary and the widow of the Shreveport veterinarian, Dr. Robert Dean Franks, Sr., who died in 1987.
At the time of his death in Shreveport from the effects of a brain tumor, Morley Hudson was residing in Waskom in eastern Harrison County, Texas, just west of the Louisiana border.
In addition to his parents and two brothers, Hudson was preceded in death by his first wife and a son who died in infancy, Morley Alvin Hudson, Jr., both of whom are interred at Forest Park Cemetery in Shreveport.
In addition to his second wife, Hudson was survived by three daughters and a son-in-law, Nancy and Joe Ed Ketner, Courtney Morley Hudson, and grandsons Max, Alex and Nicholas Hudson, all of Shreveport, and Lucy North Hudson of Pineville; stepchildren, Robert Franks, Jr., and his wife, Vicki, of Shreveport, Susan F. Leake and her husband, Rucker, of St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish, and Allen C. Franks and his wife, Cathy, of Mena, Arkansas, and their children and grandchildren.
Memorial services were held at the First Presbyterian Church of Shreveport, where Hudson was an active member. He was cremated.
Catherine Hudson, who was also an active Presbyterian, is interred at Forest Park Cemetery.
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