2nd husband Abner Roger Sealy
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Requiem for Lady of Character
Annie Gay (Wallace) Hudson
November 30, 1917-December 30, 2008
She was, for friend and family alike, the standard by which others were judged. Both she and her husband Henry were of a time when sound people built substantial lives.
Born to Lucian Edward Wallace and his wife, Anna Marie (Bianchinni) Wallace, in Galveston, Texas November 30, 1917, so she was 'BOI' (Born on Island, an important point for the natives). In Galveston, she was selected as the Oleander Princess, for the annual Oleander Pageant, circa 1921. The Victorian home where she was born & spent her first five years, built by former Texas Governor Culberson, was later lost to fire. Her father and mother actually laughed at the Great Depression in 1930, with Lucian taking an obligatory "vacation" from his career as cartographer at Shell Oil, letting their home be rented, and taking their two young daughters "camping" for a delightful summer on the Frio River, very near the present site of Garner State Park. The Wallace family owned a substantial home on Sul Ross, only a few blocks from St. Thomas University. She attended & graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston. Annie Gay's much loved older sister, Marie (Wallace) Woodson attended & graduated from Rice University.
Annie Gay married Wm. Henry Hudson (aka, Hotrock), formerly of Columbus, Mississippi, September 14, 1940. They had a double wedding with Henry's ever smiling and very kind sister, Alice Hudson and her fiancé, Gene Brodt, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston. The family still has the handwritten note Alice passed to Annie Gay in their college class, arraigning a blind date, "He's little and he's cute".
Annie Gay & Henry had two children, Henriann (Hudson) Scharnberg and Lucian Ernest Hudson. Grandchildren include Robert Eugene Scharnberg, Edward William Scharnberg, Vicki Dawn Bengoechia, plus James Anthony Hudson, Elizabeth Faye Borders, and Patrick William Hudson. Great-grandchildren abound, with several more expected shortly.
Annie Gay & Henry had literally countless friends in Houston, & lived for many years in Garden Villas, where the family enjoyed keeping and riding their own horses, and she attempted to keep up with her ever surprising and spontaneous husband. He returned from his weekly travels, for years, a little anxious to see what new adventure in animal husbandry might then be transpiring in his very ample backyard. They also enjoyed boating & fishing in Galveston, and she personally saw that her children had considerable guidance, as well as ample entertainment. Henry and his brother Carroll Saunders Hudson sold their late father's Houston furniture store on Harrisburg Blvd. in the 1960's. Owing to their successful trade in the wholesale furniture industry, Henry & Annie Gay moved to Lancaster in early 1971. Sadly, she left two of her best, life long friends in Houston-Alice Horton, married to Earl, and Mary Kay Garner, married to Robert A Garner, Jr. The three girls remained very close since the first days of school, and then all three families were constant companions in later life. Poker games, picnics, movies, and fishing were their pastimes. Born on Friday 13, of April 1917, the youngest of five, Henry was the natural foil-he knew well how to be a foil. On their first Easter, Annie Gay made him a remarkably authentic rabbit costume, no doubt with the encouragement of her father and mother, which he gladly wore while he collected the eggs. Annie Gay was rather like a fishing cork, popping to top of the water, unperturbed by trouble, and ever decent to all.
Henry and brother Carroll represented many substantial furniture factories, maintaining several showrooms at the Dallas World Trade Center in Dallas. Both brothers worked together, eventually covering a sales territory of six entire states, for over twenty years. Each brother's son also worked with him for much of that time. Annie Gay was 'secretary' and confidant for Henry & Lucian, as popular with the many hundreds of customers, and the several factory owners, as was her husband. That industry was unique, in that it was built entirely upon personal character, wood being a mere ancillary component of furniture.
She enjoyed almost twenty years with her daughter & son-in-law Robert in Houston, with the rearing of their three children, and she then moved to her next post, with the furniture business. A third mission also done, she was still prepared to serve her friends and family, in any capacity. After Henry passed away in 1981 she turned to service in the Lancaster area, primarily as a volunteer for the local hospital. She spent over twenty years there, most of every weekday, of every week, being entirely useful, always applying the principles of her Christianity, and the discipline learned so early from her parents and their family.
Annie Gay was particularly fond of her daughter-in-law, Patricia Faye Hudson. All of her grandchildren, and their children in turn, were her delight.
Both Annie Gay and her husband were directly descended of Officers and Patriots in each of the American Revolution, the Texas Revolution, and the War Between the States. Their mutual independence and strident self-reliance seemed entirely natural. Their diminutive physical stature was amply exceeded by disciplined character, charm, and wit.
She and her husband Henry were, for many decades, grateful to be members of The First Christian Church, the Disciples of Christ, 750 W. Main, Lancaster, Texas, 75146-3008. In lieu of flowers, the family would greatly appreciate any remembrance going to that remarkable & almost ancient church, in their names, in recognition of their friends. The church website is www.fccltx.org
She was buried Saturday January 3, 2008, next to her husband Henry, in Edgewood Cemetery, Lancaster, Texas, where they are, by design, adjacent to their very good friends, Sut & Doyle Witherspoon-neighbors in life & death, and fellow Disciples of Christ.
Written by her son Lucian Hudson.
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Requiem for Lady of Character
Annie Gay (Wallace) Hudson
November 30, 1917-December 30, 2008
She was, for friend and family alike, the standard by which others were judged. Both she and her husband Henry were of a time when sound people built substantial lives.
Born to Lucian Edward Wallace and his wife, Anna Marie (Bianchinni) Wallace, in Galveston, Texas November 30, 1917, so she was 'BOI' (Born on Island, an important point for the natives). In Galveston, she was selected as the Oleander Princess, for the annual Oleander Pageant, circa 1921. The Victorian home where she was born & spent her first five years, built by former Texas Governor Culberson, was later lost to fire. Her father and mother actually laughed at the Great Depression in 1930, with Lucian taking an obligatory "vacation" from his career as cartographer at Shell Oil, letting their home be rented, and taking their two young daughters "camping" for a delightful summer on the Frio River, very near the present site of Garner State Park. The Wallace family owned a substantial home on Sul Ross, only a few blocks from St. Thomas University. She attended & graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston. Annie Gay's much loved older sister, Marie (Wallace) Woodson attended & graduated from Rice University.
Annie Gay married Wm. Henry Hudson (aka, Hotrock), formerly of Columbus, Mississippi, September 14, 1940. They had a double wedding with Henry's ever smiling and very kind sister, Alice Hudson and her fiancé, Gene Brodt, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston. The family still has the handwritten note Alice passed to Annie Gay in their college class, arraigning a blind date, "He's little and he's cute".
Annie Gay & Henry had two children, Henriann (Hudson) Scharnberg and Lucian Ernest Hudson. Grandchildren include Robert Eugene Scharnberg, Edward William Scharnberg, Vicki Dawn Bengoechia, plus James Anthony Hudson, Elizabeth Faye Borders, and Patrick William Hudson. Great-grandchildren abound, with several more expected shortly.
Annie Gay & Henry had literally countless friends in Houston, & lived for many years in Garden Villas, where the family enjoyed keeping and riding their own horses, and she attempted to keep up with her ever surprising and spontaneous husband. He returned from his weekly travels, for years, a little anxious to see what new adventure in animal husbandry might then be transpiring in his very ample backyard. They also enjoyed boating & fishing in Galveston, and she personally saw that her children had considerable guidance, as well as ample entertainment. Henry and his brother Carroll Saunders Hudson sold their late father's Houston furniture store on Harrisburg Blvd. in the 1960's. Owing to their successful trade in the wholesale furniture industry, Henry & Annie Gay moved to Lancaster in early 1971. Sadly, she left two of her best, life long friends in Houston-Alice Horton, married to Earl, and Mary Kay Garner, married to Robert A Garner, Jr. The three girls remained very close since the first days of school, and then all three families were constant companions in later life. Poker games, picnics, movies, and fishing were their pastimes. Born on Friday 13, of April 1917, the youngest of five, Henry was the natural foil-he knew well how to be a foil. On their first Easter, Annie Gay made him a remarkably authentic rabbit costume, no doubt with the encouragement of her father and mother, which he gladly wore while he collected the eggs. Annie Gay was rather like a fishing cork, popping to top of the water, unperturbed by trouble, and ever decent to all.
Henry and brother Carroll represented many substantial furniture factories, maintaining several showrooms at the Dallas World Trade Center in Dallas. Both brothers worked together, eventually covering a sales territory of six entire states, for over twenty years. Each brother's son also worked with him for much of that time. Annie Gay was 'secretary' and confidant for Henry & Lucian, as popular with the many hundreds of customers, and the several factory owners, as was her husband. That industry was unique, in that it was built entirely upon personal character, wood being a mere ancillary component of furniture.
She enjoyed almost twenty years with her daughter & son-in-law Robert in Houston, with the rearing of their three children, and she then moved to her next post, with the furniture business. A third mission also done, she was still prepared to serve her friends and family, in any capacity. After Henry passed away in 1981 she turned to service in the Lancaster area, primarily as a volunteer for the local hospital. She spent over twenty years there, most of every weekday, of every week, being entirely useful, always applying the principles of her Christianity, and the discipline learned so early from her parents and their family.
Annie Gay was particularly fond of her daughter-in-law, Patricia Faye Hudson. All of her grandchildren, and their children in turn, were her delight.
Both Annie Gay and her husband were directly descended of Officers and Patriots in each of the American Revolution, the Texas Revolution, and the War Between the States. Their mutual independence and strident self-reliance seemed entirely natural. Their diminutive physical stature was amply exceeded by disciplined character, charm, and wit.
She and her husband Henry were, for many decades, grateful to be members of The First Christian Church, the Disciples of Christ, 750 W. Main, Lancaster, Texas, 75146-3008. In lieu of flowers, the family would greatly appreciate any remembrance going to that remarkable & almost ancient church, in their names, in recognition of their friends. The church website is www.fccltx.org
She was buried Saturday January 3, 2008, next to her husband Henry, in Edgewood Cemetery, Lancaster, Texas, where they are, by design, adjacent to their very good friends, Sut & Doyle Witherspoon-neighbors in life & death, and fellow Disciples of Christ.
Written by her son Lucian Hudson.
2nd husband Abner Roger Sealy
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Requiem for Lady of Character
Annie Gay (Wallace) Hudson
November 30, 1917-December 30, 2008
She was, for friend and family alike, the standard by which others were judged. Both she and her husband Henry were of a time when sound people built substantial lives.
Born to Lucian Edward Wallace and his wife, Anna Marie (Bianchinni) Wallace, in Galveston, Texas November 30, 1917, so she was 'BOI' (Born on Island, an important point for the natives). In Galveston, she was selected as the Oleander Princess, for the annual Oleander Pageant, circa 1921. The Victorian home where she was born & spent her first five years, built by former Texas Governor Culberson, was later lost to fire. Her father and mother actually laughed at the Great Depression in 1930, with Lucian taking an obligatory "vacation" from his career as cartographer at Shell Oil, letting their home be rented, and taking their two young daughters "camping" for a delightful summer on the Frio River, very near the present site of Garner State Park. The Wallace family owned a substantial home on Sul Ross, only a few blocks from St. Thomas University. She attended & graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston. Annie Gay's much loved older sister, Marie (Wallace) Woodson attended & graduated from Rice University.
Annie Gay married Wm. Henry Hudson (aka, Hotrock), formerly of Columbus, Mississippi, September 14, 1940. They had a double wedding with Henry's ever smiling and very kind sister, Alice Hudson and her fiancé, Gene Brodt, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston. The family still has the handwritten note Alice passed to Annie Gay in their college class, arraigning a blind date, "He's little and he's cute".
Annie Gay & Henry had two children, Henriann (Hudson) Scharnberg and Lucian Ernest Hudson. Grandchildren include Robert Eugene Scharnberg, Edward William Scharnberg, Vicki Dawn Bengoechia, plus James Anthony Hudson, Elizabeth Faye Borders, and Patrick William Hudson. Great-grandchildren abound, with several more expected shortly.
Annie Gay & Henry had literally countless friends in Houston, & lived for many years in Garden Villas, where the family enjoyed keeping and riding their own horses, and she attempted to keep up with her ever surprising and spontaneous husband. He returned from his weekly travels, for years, a little anxious to see what new adventure in animal husbandry might then be transpiring in his very ample backyard. They also enjoyed boating & fishing in Galveston, and she personally saw that her children had considerable guidance, as well as ample entertainment. Henry and his brother Carroll Saunders Hudson sold their late father's Houston furniture store on Harrisburg Blvd. in the 1960's. Owing to their successful trade in the wholesale furniture industry, Henry & Annie Gay moved to Lancaster in early 1971. Sadly, she left two of her best, life long friends in Houston-Alice Horton, married to Earl, and Mary Kay Garner, married to Robert A Garner, Jr. The three girls remained very close since the first days of school, and then all three families were constant companions in later life. Poker games, picnics, movies, and fishing were their pastimes. Born on Friday 13, of April 1917, the youngest of five, Henry was the natural foil-he knew well how to be a foil. On their first Easter, Annie Gay made him a remarkably authentic rabbit costume, no doubt with the encouragement of her father and mother, which he gladly wore while he collected the eggs. Annie Gay was rather like a fishing cork, popping to top of the water, unperturbed by trouble, and ever decent to all.
Henry and brother Carroll represented many substantial furniture factories, maintaining several showrooms at the Dallas World Trade Center in Dallas. Both brothers worked together, eventually covering a sales territory of six entire states, for over twenty years. Each brother's son also worked with him for much of that time. Annie Gay was 'secretary' and confidant for Henry & Lucian, as popular with the many hundreds of customers, and the several factory owners, as was her husband. That industry was unique, in that it was built entirely upon personal character, wood being a mere ancillary component of furniture.
She enjoyed almost twenty years with her daughter & son-in-law Robert in Houston, with the rearing of their three children, and she then moved to her next post, with the furniture business. A third mission also done, she was still prepared to serve her friends and family, in any capacity. After Henry passed away in 1981 she turned to service in the Lancaster area, primarily as a volunteer for the local hospital. She spent over twenty years there, most of every weekday, of every week, being entirely useful, always applying the principles of her Christianity, and the discipline learned so early from her parents and their family.
Annie Gay was particularly fond of her daughter-in-law, Patricia Faye Hudson. All of her grandchildren, and their children in turn, were her delight.
Both Annie Gay and her husband were directly descended of Officers and Patriots in each of the American Revolution, the Texas Revolution, and the War Between the States. Their mutual independence and strident self-reliance seemed entirely natural. Their diminutive physical stature was amply exceeded by disciplined character, charm, and wit.
She and her husband Henry were, for many decades, grateful to be members of The First Christian Church, the Disciples of Christ, 750 W. Main, Lancaster, Texas, 75146-3008. In lieu of flowers, the family would greatly appreciate any remembrance going to that remarkable & almost ancient church, in their names, in recognition of their friends. The church website is www.fccltx.org
She was buried Saturday January 3, 2008, next to her husband Henry, in Edgewood Cemetery, Lancaster, Texas, where they are, by design, adjacent to their very good friends, Sut & Doyle Witherspoon-neighbors in life & death, and fellow Disciples of Christ.
Written by her son Lucian Hudson.
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Requiem for Lady of Character
Annie Gay (Wallace) Hudson
November 30, 1917-December 30, 2008
She was, for friend and family alike, the standard by which others were judged. Both she and her husband Henry were of a time when sound people built substantial lives.
Born to Lucian Edward Wallace and his wife, Anna Marie (Bianchinni) Wallace, in Galveston, Texas November 30, 1917, so she was 'BOI' (Born on Island, an important point for the natives). In Galveston, she was selected as the Oleander Princess, for the annual Oleander Pageant, circa 1921. The Victorian home where she was born & spent her first five years, built by former Texas Governor Culberson, was later lost to fire. Her father and mother actually laughed at the Great Depression in 1930, with Lucian taking an obligatory "vacation" from his career as cartographer at Shell Oil, letting their home be rented, and taking their two young daughters "camping" for a delightful summer on the Frio River, very near the present site of Garner State Park. The Wallace family owned a substantial home on Sul Ross, only a few blocks from St. Thomas University. She attended & graduated from San Jacinto High School in Houston. Annie Gay's much loved older sister, Marie (Wallace) Woodson attended & graduated from Rice University.
Annie Gay married Wm. Henry Hudson (aka, Hotrock), formerly of Columbus, Mississippi, September 14, 1940. They had a double wedding with Henry's ever smiling and very kind sister, Alice Hudson and her fiancé, Gene Brodt, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston. The family still has the handwritten note Alice passed to Annie Gay in their college class, arraigning a blind date, "He's little and he's cute".
Annie Gay & Henry had two children, Henriann (Hudson) Scharnberg and Lucian Ernest Hudson. Grandchildren include Robert Eugene Scharnberg, Edward William Scharnberg, Vicki Dawn Bengoechia, plus James Anthony Hudson, Elizabeth Faye Borders, and Patrick William Hudson. Great-grandchildren abound, with several more expected shortly.
Annie Gay & Henry had literally countless friends in Houston, & lived for many years in Garden Villas, where the family enjoyed keeping and riding their own horses, and she attempted to keep up with her ever surprising and spontaneous husband. He returned from his weekly travels, for years, a little anxious to see what new adventure in animal husbandry might then be transpiring in his very ample backyard. They also enjoyed boating & fishing in Galveston, and she personally saw that her children had considerable guidance, as well as ample entertainment. Henry and his brother Carroll Saunders Hudson sold their late father's Houston furniture store on Harrisburg Blvd. in the 1960's. Owing to their successful trade in the wholesale furniture industry, Henry & Annie Gay moved to Lancaster in early 1971. Sadly, she left two of her best, life long friends in Houston-Alice Horton, married to Earl, and Mary Kay Garner, married to Robert A Garner, Jr. The three girls remained very close since the first days of school, and then all three families were constant companions in later life. Poker games, picnics, movies, and fishing were their pastimes. Born on Friday 13, of April 1917, the youngest of five, Henry was the natural foil-he knew well how to be a foil. On their first Easter, Annie Gay made him a remarkably authentic rabbit costume, no doubt with the encouragement of her father and mother, which he gladly wore while he collected the eggs. Annie Gay was rather like a fishing cork, popping to top of the water, unperturbed by trouble, and ever decent to all.
Henry and brother Carroll represented many substantial furniture factories, maintaining several showrooms at the Dallas World Trade Center in Dallas. Both brothers worked together, eventually covering a sales territory of six entire states, for over twenty years. Each brother's son also worked with him for much of that time. Annie Gay was 'secretary' and confidant for Henry & Lucian, as popular with the many hundreds of customers, and the several factory owners, as was her husband. That industry was unique, in that it was built entirely upon personal character, wood being a mere ancillary component of furniture.
She enjoyed almost twenty years with her daughter & son-in-law Robert in Houston, with the rearing of their three children, and she then moved to her next post, with the furniture business. A third mission also done, she was still prepared to serve her friends and family, in any capacity. After Henry passed away in 1981 she turned to service in the Lancaster area, primarily as a volunteer for the local hospital. She spent over twenty years there, most of every weekday, of every week, being entirely useful, always applying the principles of her Christianity, and the discipline learned so early from her parents and their family.
Annie Gay was particularly fond of her daughter-in-law, Patricia Faye Hudson. All of her grandchildren, and their children in turn, were her delight.
Both Annie Gay and her husband were directly descended of Officers and Patriots in each of the American Revolution, the Texas Revolution, and the War Between the States. Their mutual independence and strident self-reliance seemed entirely natural. Their diminutive physical stature was amply exceeded by disciplined character, charm, and wit.
She and her husband Henry were, for many decades, grateful to be members of The First Christian Church, the Disciples of Christ, 750 W. Main, Lancaster, Texas, 75146-3008. In lieu of flowers, the family would greatly appreciate any remembrance going to that remarkable & almost ancient church, in their names, in recognition of their friends. The church website is www.fccltx.org
She was buried Saturday January 3, 2008, next to her husband Henry, in Edgewood Cemetery, Lancaster, Texas, where they are, by design, adjacent to their very good friends, Sut & Doyle Witherspoon-neighbors in life & death, and fellow Disciples of Christ.
Written by her son Lucian Hudson.
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