Harry “Bruce” Hudson (1928-2013)

HUDSON, KING, ANGELOS

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 3/9/2013 at 11:37:03

From Adams & Soderstrum Funeral Home obituary, Story County, Iowa:

Obituary for Harry "Bruce" Hudson
Harry “Bruce” Hudson, 84, of Ames, died Monday, February 4, 2013 at Mary Greeley Medical Center. No services are planned at this time.

Harry “Bruce” Hudson was born June 7, 1928 to Otis and Josephine King Hudson in Schaller, Iowa. He graduated Schaller High School where he lettered in baseball, basketball and football. He then worked his way through Iowa State College with a student job at Iowa State Memorial Union and at his fraternity (Phi Kappa Tau) where he served meals and washed dishes to pay for his own meals. He graduated from Iowa State College with a BS in Industrial Administration in March of 1951.

Bruce enlisted in the United States Navy in April of 1951. After boot camp in San Diego, schooling and an assignment at the Navy's War College in Monterey, he was sent to Officer's Candidate School (OCS) in Newport, Rhode Island. He was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve and served on the Ammunition Ship USS Vesuvius (AE-15) as a deck/watch officer during the Korean Conflict. He also served as assistant combat information center/watch officer on the carrier USS Hornet (CVA-12) for eighteen months. During his tour on the Hornet, she took a `world cruise' that included a five-month patrol in the Formosa Straits (now Taiwan) during the pre-Vietnam War build-up. In February of 1955 Bruce was released to inactive reserve status. He took a job as process engineer with Solar Aircraft Co. in Des Moines and was named Commanding Officer of Naval Reserve Security Division 9-18 in Fort Des Moines.

On April 6, 1956, Bruce and Marian (Molly) Angelos were married at Windsor Presbyterian Church, where he was serving as an elder.

When Solar Aircraft closed in 1957, he took a job with the Specialty Products Division (SPD) of General Mills, Inc. and was named a regional sales representative covering western USA and western Canada. The family moved from Des Moines to Appleton, Wisconsin during this General Mills assignment. In 1964, he was named Manager of Operations of Iowa State Memorial Union and the family, now including three sons, moved from Appleton to Ames, Iowa. In 1971, he was named Managing Director and served in that capacity until retirement in 1987. In 1987, he and his three sons formed a corporation to market a line of medical timing devices, designed by the sons, under the trade name, 'Med -Time' Enroute-Arrest and Alert.

Bruce had been active in three Presbyterian Churches, serving as Elder, Trustee and Deacon; in Boy Scouts at all leadership levels and all three sons all became Eagle Scouts; in PTA, as President of the Meeker PTA and of the Ames PTA Council; on the boards of Hope Pre-School and Ames Rotary; and served his fraternity as President of the Alumni Council as well as faculty/staff advisor for a number of years.

Bruce was a Life Scout and member of Northminster Presbyterian Church, the American Legion Post #37, a life member of Iowa State Memorial Union and Iowa State University's Alumni Association, and Chairman of Hudsons, Inc. In addition to the ‘world cruise,’ he had traveled extensively in the USA, Canada and Europe.

He is survived by his wife, Marian “Molly” Hudson of Ames; three sons, Paul (Deb) Hudson of Ames, John (Lana) Hudson of Rapid City, South Dakota, and Scott (Wendy) Hudson of Cedar Falls.; two brothers, Bob Hudson of Des Moines, and Roger (Sue) Hudson of Des Moines; eight grandchildren; and six step-grandchildren.

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