Hudson, Orville Lon Jr.

of Commerce Okla, died Aug 11, 2003, in Joplin Missouri. He was 75. Born Feb 19, 1928, in Kansas City Missouri, to Orville Lon Hudson Sr. and Verli Marie Neel Hudson of Miami. Lived in the Miami area most of his life. He attended the Claremore Okla Military Academy in the early 1940s and was a veteran of the Air Force, serving during World War II. He was a design engineer at Newell Coach and an employee of Wal-Mart in Joplin for 15 years. He owned a business called Hudson and Hudson Trucking Company, which hauled freight during the Vietnam War. Married Wanda I. Ray' Hudson in 1954 in Baxter Springs Kansas. She survives.