Vaughn, Catherine Wade Hudgins
Catherine Anne Wade Hudgins Vaughn, known lovingly by all as Kitty, she left us sadly March 30, 2026 – during Holy Week – to be with her family and friends. She led an amazing and extremely happy life. Twice married to James Mathew Hudgins, Sr. (Jim) of Roanoke and many years later to Edwin Versel Vaughn (Jack) of Pulaski.
Jim very proudly served in WW2, Private First Class, Company 1, in the 116th Infantry. He survived Normandy, and was honored with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, Victory Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Expert Combat Infantry Badge, and 5 others. He is interred in the Arlington National Cemetery with full Military Honors and 21-Gun Salute.
Jack was a Gentleman farmer that raised beef cattle his entire adult life on multiple farms in Pulaski. He was also elected as Board of Supervisors for 2 consecutive terms. They were married for 22 years and traveled extensively, to Europe, Hawaii, and especially in a mobile home, around the US.
Mom was also blessed to have met and had another life partner with Dewey Wilson, very well known as the Principal of Pulaski County High School, for his entire career. He was honored to have a street named in his honor at the HS, Dewey Wilson Way. They also had a fondness for travel, in mobile homes, and traveled much of their years together, including winters in Florida, and once a month-long journey to Alaska.
Mom was unique in her early life to become a professional woman as a Radiologist Technician and practiced as such her entire career. Unique as she was divorced early when her two Sons were young, Gregory Wade Hudgins, 12 and “Chip” James Matthew Hudgins, Jr, 15. And at times, for many years, she worked 2 jobs, to raise her boys to lack nothing.
In 1975 Mom accepted a Position as an X-Ray technician at Pulaski Community Hospital. It was then that she met Jack Vaughn, a widower. They married in 1978, and Jack built her a lovely Home on a gorgeous hillside farm with the best views in Pulaski. They were very active in Jack’s Methodist church in lovely Newbern, not a mile away. And as a Board of Supervisor, they led an active life in the Community where Jack was very well known.
Mom was blessed in her life with her own family from Collierstown, Va, outside Lexington. Her mother, Pearl Mae Potter, a lifelong Principal of Effinger Elementary School. She married Howard Johnson Wade Sr, a Miller of the Wades Mill on Colliers Creek. She had a beloved sister, Virginia Mae Wade, Gini Mae, and brother, Howard Johnson Wade, Jr., Jackie. He was an honored Va State Trooper for life, a Farmer and Farm owner, Hunter, Fisherman, Coin and Gun Collector, happily married, and very active in his Roanoke Presbyterian Church. The Potter family goes back 7 generations of beef cattle farmers, and Mom was very close with her contemporary Potter cousins. Today they still are cattle farmers, with Buffalo Creek Beef. Her sister, Gini Mae married Gilbert Feinman, Lynchburg, they owned the well-known Vogue fine clothier. Her two children, Deborah Feinman Johnson, and Mike Feinman. Later in mom’s life, our annual Holidays on the farm were always full of people, and always with Deb and her children, Stuart and Neely Johnson, and often with Mike Feinman and his daughter Melissa.
Her survivors: Son, Greg W Hudgins, Alexandria, Va. Deb Johnson, Neely Johnson, Lynchburg, Va. Stuart and Madson Johnson Family, Richmond, Va., Mike Feinman, Bealeton, Va., Melissa Feinman, Peachtree City, Ga, Joe and Sylvia Feinman Family, Lexington Park, Md.
Celebration of Life and light Lunch reception, May 23, 2026 3 pm at Collierstown Presbyterian Church. Please RSVP (for the caterer by May 11) for this special time in Mom’s honor. Greg@GWHudgins.com No gifts or flowers please, if inclined, please give to a Charity of choice, in her honor.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.seaglefuneralhome.com Arrangements by Seagle Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Pulaski. 540-980-1700
