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 Lasy July, I wrote this:
Helen Hudgens is 93 years young. She's the best Grandma a person could have. I gave my daughter her middle name. And talk about longevitythe longer she goes, the longer I can keep ducking the title "middle age."
This morning, she passed away, may she rest in peace. We knew it was not long away and though it might happen two weeks ago when she went to the hospital with complications. My sister, mother and I all started thinking, how close it was to her husband, Grandpa Jack's, final day. It was almost exactly 10 years—May 10th 1998.
 Well she pulled through and recovered somewhat, but still remained very weak and returned to the assisted care home. My mother, an only child, who has been by her side for the last several years had scheduled a trip up here to Minnesota from Illinois for Mother's day weekend. There's a bit of irony there, but I am very glad to be here for her, even though she needs to get back soon to take care of things. I will be making a trip back there too some time this week. It's too soon to have things planned out yet.
In the end she did it. Call it fate, planning, or a bizarre coincindence, but there it is. Jack Hudgens: May 10th 1998, Helen V. Hudgens: May 10th 2008, 10 years to the day. Here are a couple of my favorite images. The top one is the last photo of her form this March, with my son Asa. The other two are of Helen and Jack in the great days. Helen was born July 15, 1914 to Cleveland and Edith Pendleton near Bellflower, Illinois. She had a close and large family with 6 sisters and 2 brothers. She married Jack E. Hudgens in 1932 and he preceded her in 1998.
 Helen will be greatly missed by her family and friends. She was active in assisting her husband with his building business, as well as being a real estate broker in the Bloomington area. She was a great lover of music and once entertained on the radio with her sister Ruth, as the Melodie Maids, and was active in golf, bowling, and other exercise. The family is greatly thankful to the staff at McLean County Nursing Home for their care and thoughtfulness. Memorials can to given to charities of choice.
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