Donald Ray Hudson

ON AUGUST 23, 1950 IN HOUSTON, TEXAS A BOUNCING BABY BOY WAS BORN TO SEAFER AND IDA MAE HUDSON. THEY NAMED HIM DONALD RAY. HE WAS BETTER KOWN AS LITTLE JOE. DONALD ATTENDED THE HIGHLAND HEIGHTS ELEMENTRY AND M.C. WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL. HE CONFESSED CHRIST AT A EARLY AGE AND WAS BAPTISED BY PASTOR ROBERT SMITH AT NEW HOPE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER. HE HAD A UNIQUE RESPECT FOR GOD AND THE CHURCH. DONALD WAS EMPLOYED AT NORTHWEST MANUFACTORS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, BUT GOD HAD BLESSED DONALD WITH A GIFT OF WORKING WITH HIS HANDS. HE WAS A MASTER CARPENTER. HE WAS KNOWN FOR HIS MAGNIFICENT WORK AND HIS WILLINGNESS TO HELP THOSE THAT NEEDED HIS SERVICES UNTIL HIS HEALTH FAILED. HE ALWAYS HAD A BIG SMILE AND A QUIET HUMBLE SPIRIT. DONALD WILL BE TRULY MISSED BY HIS FAIMLY AND FRIENDS. DONALD HAD A LOVED HORSES AND THEREFORE HE WAYS A COWBOY; HE WOULD GO TO THE RODEO AND ROPE. HE HAD A BUCLE THAT HE WON AND HE WAS SUPER PROUD OF IT. HE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS SEAFER AND IDA HUDSON, HIS SISTER MARY DAVIS THREE BROTHERS BILLY MC EAST, ELDER EDGAR HUDSON, AND CHARLES JOHNSON. HE LEAVES TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIES TWO SISTERS NORMA HUDSON, ELNORA HUDSON, ONE BROTHER JOHNNY RAY HUDSON, ONE SISTER-IN-LAW VIOLET JOHNSON, COUSINS, NIECES, NEPHEWS AND A HOST OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS.