The Rev. Dr. Yeager Hudson
This is the obituary posting for a good and decent man. Yeager was my teacher, mentor, and friend in college. He is probably one of the main reasons I am a minister, Methodist, and even a Christian.
He is not a name than anyone reading this blog is likely to know, but he was important to me. Perhaps this is only a sign that while so many of us will never make the cover of Newsweek, we are all important to the lives we touch and the fingerprints we leave on the souls of those we encounter.
Rest in peace, good a faithful servant (Matthew 25). You are and will be greatly missed until we meet again . . .
GEORGETOWN — The Rev. Dr. Yeager Hudson died April 22, 2007, at Midcoast Hospital in Brunswick, after a long battle with cancer.
He was born on Aug. 14, 1931, in Meridian, Miss., the son of Ernest and Effie Elizabeth (Yeager) Hudson. He attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Mich., graduating with honors in 1954. While attending Millsaps College he also met and married his wife of 53 years, Louise Hight Hudson.
Upon completing his undergraduate studies, he and his wife moved to Boston, Mass., where he earned a Masters in Sacred Theology as well as a PH. D. in Philosophy from Boston University. While completing work on his Doctorate, he accepted a temporary teaching position in 1959 at Colby College in Waterville. This temporary position resulted in not only a life-long love affair with the State of Maine, but a teaching career at Colby College that spanned 40 years.
During his studies at Boston University, Dr. Hudson developed an affinity for South Asian Philosophy. Under the instruction of Amiya Chakravarty, the 20 personal secretary of Indian Peot/Philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Hudson also came to share a deep affection for the works of Mr. Tagore and others such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. These influences would continue to shape Dr. Hudson’s thinking and teaching over his entire career, ultimately leading to several sabbatical leaves spent living in both India and Sri Lanka.
In addition to his teaching position, Dr. Hudson was also an ordained Minister of the United Methodist Church. During the years spent at Millsaps College, Dr. Hudson was Deacon for several rural congregations in the Vicksburg, Mich. area. While not formally the pastor of a congregation since having lived in Mississippi, Dr. Hudson was closely involved with the Methodist church on both a local and New England-wide level. He led services, performed weddings and conducted funerals for various congregations around the state while their pastors were on vacation, otherwise disposed or by individuals requests.
Dr. Hudson is survived by his wife, Louise Hudson of Georgetown; two sons, Paul Hudson of Georgetown and Gary Hudson of Cincinnati, Ohio; five grandchildren, Isabelle, Walter, Sophie, Wyatt, Celie and several nieces and nephews.
A visiting hour will be held from 6 to 7 p.m., on Friday at Mayo, Curtis & Hill Funeral Home, 819 High St., Bath. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the United Methodist Church, 1184 Washington St., Bath. A gathering of family and friends will follow in the Parish Fellowship Hall. Burial will be at Mountainside Cemetery in Georgetown.
Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to Colby College in his name, the Bath United Methodist Church Building Fund or the Georgetown Historical Society.
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