Hudson Bubar II
Hudson Bubar II
Hudson Bubar II
1926-2015
Hudson Howard Bubar II died peacefully in his sleep on May 2, 2015, in Forney.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Dec. 30, 1926, Hudson began a 20-year career in the United States Navy, enlisting on Feb, 4, 1944.
Hudson retired to the United States Fleet Reserve on the July 30, 1963, with the Rank of Chief Petty Officer/Radioman. He proudly served aboard several ships, with final duty with the Commander in Chief, US Atlantic Fleet from Jan. 1961 to July 1963.
Hudson brought his family to reside in Cambridge, N.Y., which was the first home they ever had as a family. Civilian jobs varied, from being a part of the IBM Development Team for OS3, to owning and operating Cambridge Taxi and returning to the water as chef aboard New York Harbor tugboats.
He loved great music in operas and symphonies and poetry. Reading became his passion when he lost his sight. One could always find Hudson toting his “reader” with him, where it could be presumed he lived an alter-life inside each of his many mystery/suspense novels.
A late-life passion for Hudson came when he passed licensing exams for operation of a Technician Class Radio Amateur License with Callsign KD5KWV. The mornings of ragchew with fellow “hams” was a delight for the retired Chief Petty Officer/Radioman, and many new “ham radio” friends were made. In the tradition of Amateur Radio’s customary good-byes, Hudson H. Bubar, KD5KWV is Silent Key, 73 and 88 from your many “ham” friends.
Hudson is preceded in death by his father Willard Clark Bubar Sr.; mother, Edna Howard Bubar Biercuk; and brothers, Willard Clark (Corky) Bubar Jr., and Stanley F. Bubar.
He is survived by his loving wife of 64 years, Mary Louise (Beymer) Bubar; three children, Mary Kim Walker and husband Cliff Walker, Hudson Howard (Kip) Bubar III, and Karol Louise Mabry and husband, Karl Mabry; four grandchildren, Roger Hudson Gray, Nakia Caleb Gray, Kyle Mabry, Hudson Howard (Keith) Bubar IV; one great-granddaughter; two nieces; and one nephew.
The Bubar family learned family life after the long military career in Ash Grove Road, before Hudson and Mary settled again first in Slidell, La. then their final home in Canton.
In lieu of flowers, it is requested by the family that donations be sent to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society or to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS).
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, 875 N. Randolph St. Suite 225 Arlington, VA 22203; National Library Service, Talking Books Program 1291 Taylor St. NW, c/o Erica Vaughns, Washington D.C. 20542; and for online donations, Navy Relief Society: https://donate.nmcrs.org/page/contribute/donate2015 and National Library Service:
