Retha Mae Allen Hudson

Four Oaks, NC:  Mrs. Retha Mae Allen Hudson, age 86, died Tuesday. Funeral service will be held 11:00AM-Friday at Rose & Graham Funeral Chapel in Four Oaks. Elder Tony Parker will officiate.  Burial will follow in the Hills of the Neuse Memory Gardens Smithfield, NC.             Mrs. Hudson was born July 9, 1930 in Johnston County to the late Elijah & Rebecca Lee Allen. Mrs. Hudson was retired from Field Crest Mills and she was a member of the Piney Grove Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church.  In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, James Robert Hudson, a son, J.E. Hudson, grandson, Charles Blackwelder and daughter-in-law, Sue Hudson, and nine brothers and sisters.                      Surviving are Daughters & Son-In Laws, Pat H. & Ed Thompson of Smithfield, NC, Peggy H. & Charles Blackwelder of Smithfield, NC; Son & Daughter-In-Law, Danny & Sherrie Hudson of Selma, NC; Nine Grandchilden, Fourteen Great-Grandchildren and five Great-Great-Grandchildren. Several nieces and nephews.             The family will receive friends from 7:00PM-9:00PM Thursday at Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Four Oaks and other times at the home of Pat Thompson, 94 Hillcrest Rd. Smithfield, NC.