Roberta Stamps Hudyma

Published 5:00 am Monday, July 7, 2008

Services for Roberta Stamps Hudyma, of Jackson, are 3 p.m.Tuesday, July 8, at Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home Chapel onHighland Colony Parkway in Ridgeland with entombment in TrinityMausoleum in Parkway Memorial Cemetery in Ridgeland.

Visitation is Tuesday from 1 until 3 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Hudyma, 90, died July 6, 2008, at her residence. She was bornin Washington, D.C., on June 6, 1918, to Robert Lee Stamps and LolaBert Boren.

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At a young age, she moved to Brookhaven where she later graduatedfrom Brookhaven High School and Whitworth College. She retiredafter a long career as a legal secretary with the Mississippi StateTax Commission. She was a very active member of the Fort RosalieChapter of the Daughter’s of the American Revolution and was alsoan active member of the Salvation Army Auxiliary. She was a memberof Northminster Baptist Church.

She had a beautiful and wonderful life and loved to travel with herfriends; she flew on the Concord and rode the Orient Express. Sheloved ballroom dancing. She was truly a sweet Southern lady thatloved everyone and was loved by those she met. She will be missedby all who knew her.

Preceding her in death was her husband, William J. Hudyma.

Survivors are a brother, Robert W. Stamps Sr. and wife, Shirley, ofBrookhaven; a nephew, Robert Warren Stamps Jr. and family, ofBrookhaven; a niece, Sabrina S. Franklin; her great-nieces andgreat-nephew, Rebecca L. Mercier, of Kingwood, Texas, NicoleMcMillan, of Brookhaven, and Rob Mercier, of Kingwood.

Memorials may be made to Northminster Baptist Church, 3955Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211.