OBITUARY: Gayle Lutts Hudson

Mrs. Gayle Lutts Hudson, a homemaker of Gordonsville, departed this life at the age of 82 at 6:55 p.m. Wednesday evening January 29, 2025 at the Alive Hospice Residence in Nashville with her two sons and daughters-in-law at her bedside. She was admitted earlier that day following a long battle with cancer, which she had gallantly fought for many years.

Mrs. Hudson is at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be remembered on Sunday afternoon February 2nd at 3 p.m. at the funeral home chapel. Dr. Jim Clardy will officiate. Private interment services for Mrs. Hudson will be in the Lutts family plot with her parents at the Lutts Cemetery in Lutts, Tennessee. The Hudson family will receive friends only on Sunday February 2nd at Sanderson in Carthage from 1 p.m. until the Celebration of Life at 3 p.m.

Mrs. Hudson was born Wanda Gayle Lutts in Lutts on August 11, 1942 and was one of two daughters of retired farmer and sawmill owner, the late James Elmer Lutts who died February 6, 2010 at the age of 92 and Pauline Darby Lutts who died October 1, 1995 at the age of 75. She was preceded in death by her only sibling, longtime Union City, Tennessee educator Ann Lutts Townes, who died October 5, 2012 at the age of 72.

Mrs. Hudson was a 1960 graduate of Collinwood High School in Wayne County, Tennessee and continued her education at the University of Tennessee at Martin where she graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor Degree in home economics. Her career began on January 2, 1964 as the Home Demonstration Agent in Jackson County where she was located for two years and eight months before being appointed to the same position in Smith County in September of 1966 and served until having her first son in 1971.

At the Carthage United Methodist Church on May 3, 1969, she was united in marriage by then church pastor, Rev. Maurice Moore, to Gordonsville native Phillip Barrett Hudson. In 1971 the family constructed their new home on Gordonsville Highway in Gordonsville. Mr. and Mrs. Hudson were members of the Carthage United Methodist Church. They enjoyed attending car races, University of Tennessee football games, and traveling, and together they had visited all seven of the world’s continents.

Surviving in addition to her husband Phillip Sr. of almost fifty-six years are their two sons, Carl Lutts Hudson and wife Cheryl of Lebanon, Phillip B. Hudson Jr. and wife Dr. Alissa Craft Hudson of Cookeville; five grandchildren, Phillip Jr.’s three children, Cecelia Craft Hudson, Phillip Barrett Hudson III and Darby Anne Hudson, Carl’s two children, Benjamin Carl Hudson and Samuel Elliot Hudson.

The Hudson family has requested memorials to the Carthage United Methodist Church. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Gayle, please visit our floral store.