Sarah Hudson earned a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Rochester. She's served as an investigative reporter and covered justice issues, crime, protests, wildfires and government affairs. The family has asked donations be made in Hudson Jr.’s name to the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan’s COVID-19 Relief Fund at /covid19-relief/ and the Michigan Justice Fund at /initiative/michigan-justice-fund/.ĭarcie Moran is a breaking news reporter and podcaster for the Detroit Free Press. Hudson is survived by his wife, his four children, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In addition, he was president of the United Foundation, now known as United Way, and was president of the Tannahill Foundation, receiving numerous accolades for his efforts. Hudson also served as a director of National Bank of Detroit, Detroit Edison, Michigan Bell Telephone Company, National Steel, Bundy Corporation, Masco Corporation, and McCormick Oil & Gas. Hudson was elected the first president and chief executive officer of the Detroit Medical Center and also served on the board and as chairman of Harper Hospital. He touched thousands of lives in Detroit and beyond, the post stated. “Today we all lost a true champion for Detroit and our DIA,” said Gene Gargaro, DIA Board Chair said a statement in the post. “Words cannot properly express our sense of loss for our esteemed emeritus director, cherished museum patron and dear friend.” The institute commended Hudson for his service as president of the City of Detroit Arts Commission (Detroit Institute of Arts) from 1979 to 1990 and status as a longtime trustee, trustee emeritus with his wife, and the former chair of the DIA’s Building Committee. The Detroit Institue of Arts - the DIA - in a Facebook post Wednesday also mourned the loss of the museum’s 2005 Lifetime Service Award winner. More: He saved Hudson's elevator from Detroit store implosion. “Joe Hudson was a visionary leader who worked to improve life for all in southeast Michigan,” said Noland. “From chairing New Detroit in 1967, to giving years of leadership to the DIA, to founding the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan in 1985, his vision of building permanent community capital became a reality." The group shared a video tribute to him Wednesday night. Southeast Michigan and the state are better because of Hudson Jr., said Mariam Noland, current president of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, in a statement on Facebook. also helped found the racial justice non-profit New Detroit after the city's 1967 civil uprising and convened the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, serving as its founding chair. The foundation has assets of approximately $175 million and is focused on improving the quality of life in Detroit through the support of community and economic development, environment, safe and just communities, and arts and culture. He retired from the group in 1996, though he continued to serve as a lifetime honorary trustee. Hudson served as trustee of the grant-making foundation in 1956, then president and chairman starting in 1961, according to his obituary. “May his example continue to inspire each of us to bring people of good will together to enrich and improve the world that has been left in our care,” she said. Hudson was a true leader, whose dedication has been a driving force in the community’s “continuous re-invention and revitalization,” said Melanca Clark, president and CEO of the Hudson-Webber foundation, in a statement. Like his family before him, he led the way on philanthropic endeavors as well as business ventures. He retired from the company and the Dayton Hudson Corporation in 1982. would serve as the third generation of the department store chain, taking over as president and CEO in 1961 (and presiding over the legendary, splendid, now-fallen Woodward Avenue location). He married his wife, Jean Bent Wright, in 1952, graduated from Yale University in 1953, served in the Army overseas in Germany, then returned to the Hudson brand in 1956. More: 10 cool facts about the legendary Hudson's store in downtown Detroit More: Hudson's, Crowley's and other Detroit stores that turned city into shopping destination arrived in Detroit in the 1940s, according to the obituary. He was 89.īorn in Buffalo, New York, to Joseph L. Hudson died peacefully Wednesday morning at his Grosse Pointe Farms home, according to an obituary released Wednesday evening by the Hudson-Webber Foundation. department store chain and a renowned philanthropist, has died.
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