NELL BROGDEN HUDSON ODOM
May 27, 1933-Feb. 4, 2016
Nell Brogden Hudson Odom, 83, Mount Olive area resident, passed away Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, at Kitty Askins Hospice Center surrounded by her family.
Born in Duplin County to the late Phillip and Bessie Carter Brogden, she worked for 18 years as a seamstress with Young Squire Industries, retiring from Wayne County Public Schools, having worked at Mount Olive Middle School in the cafeteria.
She was a faithful member of Mount Olive First Pentecostal Holiness Church, where she attended for as long as her health allowed.
A loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, she will be greatly missed.
A service to celebrate and honor her life will be held Friday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m. at Mount Olive First Pentecostal Holiness Church, with pastor Jeff Dail officiating, and followed by visitation with the family.
Burial will be Saturday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. in Maplewood Cemetery in Mount Olive.
Nell was preceded in death by her first husband and the father of her children, Dwight Hudson.
She was also preceded in death by three brothers, Roy, Troy and Marvin Brogden, and two sisters, Joanne Bishop and Linda Sauls.
She is survived by her husband, Jarvis Odom of the home; her son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Donna Hudson of Mount Olive; twin daughters and their husbands, Kaye and Wayne Anderson of Mount Olive and Faye and Wayne Brock of Calypso; and her five grandchildren, Tony Anderson and wife, Mary Beth, Lisa Anderson, Lee Hudson, Jay Hudson and wife, Kara Holmes, and Crystal Miller and husband, Ron.
Also surviving are 11 great-grandchildren, Morgan and Avery Anderson, Isaac and Sophia Davis, Kemper, Lyla, Maddox and Bellamy Hudson, Brock and Hayden Miller and baby boy Miller due in June.
Additionally, she had two sisters, Thelma Reaves of Mount Olive and Hilda Precythe and husband, Henry, of Faison; a brother, Charles Brogden of Dudley; and two brothers-in-law, Jack Sauls of Warsaw and Ray Bishop of Mount Olive.
Nell's family would like to extend a special thank you to the nurses and staff at Kitty Askins Hospice Center for making her final days peaceful.
Flowers are welcome or donations may be made to Mount Olive First Pentecostal Holiness Church, 130 Ed Edmundson Road, Mount Olive, N.C., 28365, or Kitty Askins Hospice, 107 Handley Park Court, Goldsboro, N.C., 27534.
A Tyndall service.
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Published in Obituaries on February 4, 2016 1:48 PM