Services for Melvin Donald Hudson of Wesson are 11 a.m., Friday,April 4, at Pleasant Ridge Pentecostal Church with burial in thechurch cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at Brookhaven FuneralHome.

Mr. Hudson, 71, died April 2, 2003, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Wesson on June 17, 1931, to Melvin “Buck”Hudson and Exa Gill Hudson.

He was retired from the oil field. He was a member of PleasantRidge Pentecostal Church.

Preceding him in death were his father; and his wife, Mary AliceBarnes Hudson.

Survivors are his sons, Terry Hudson of Brookhaven, and MarcellHudson and Tony Hudson, both of Wesson; his daughters, Gail Smithand Tammy Allen, both of Wesson; his mother, Exa Gill Hudson ofWesson; his sisters, Hazel Barlow of Hazlehurst, Irene Dunigan ofNatchez, and Eloise Patton of Danbury, Fla.; and 11 grandchildrenand one great-grandchild.