Marguerite T Hudson

Marguerite Evangeline Tindol Hudson was born in Coffee County, Alabama, March 8, 1924 to tenant farmers, Leo Tindol and Cynthia Evelyn Nolin, and passed peacefully without pain or fear in Polk County, Florida on February 2, 2026 just a few days short of her 102nd birthday having spent her last days under the dutiful, loving and dedicated care of her daughter, Jane Hudson Beale. She was greeted in Heaven by those loved ones who have passed before, her husband, James L. Hudson, her father, her mother, two brothers, four sisters, a daughter-in law, a grandson, a step-grandson, a great-grandson and many cousins, uncles, aunts and friends and her loving and devoted son-in law, John Beale. She leaves a loving and devoted family, a sister, Brenda Tindol Bragg, a son, James Hudson, Jr., and his wife Patricia, a son, Stanford Hudson, and his wife Paula, a son, Billy Tindol Hudson, a daughter, Jane Hudson Beale, thirteen grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild. Marguerite was a loving mother, a world traveler, talented singer, still singing beautifully up until her last day, and a well-read self-educated scholar intelligently conversant on many subjects with a personal library with hundreds of volumes, all of which she had read. On her hundredth birthday, Cottondale Florida High School awarded her a certificate of Honorary Valedictorian, an honor she had earned but had been politically denied at graduation. Her cremains will be interred at Mt. Zion Baptist Church at Mixson’s Cross Roads, Alabama only a mile from her birth place and within yards of a meadow where she reminisced spending the happiest day of her life on an Easter afternoon lying in a field of yellow and purple violets imagining images of animals and people in the white billowing clouds above in the deep blue Alabama sky. Our family’s last words to her were, “We’ll see you in the morning.” spoken with the assurance we will soon see her again.