Mrs. Olivia McCullar Hudson, 77, of Batesville, MS, passed away on Tuesday, January 24, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi in Oxford.

Mrs. Hudson was born on September 5, 1939 in Enid, MS to The Late Eula Lakey McCullar and Lon McCullar. She was a member of Good Hope Baptist Church near Batesville, where she was very involved in the WMU, as well as teaching and helping with any activity. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, who was devoted to her faith and her family.

Mrs. Hudson is survived by three sons, Ralph Edwin Hudson and Wendell Andrew Hudson, both of Batesville, MS and Merle Lee Hudson of Pontotoc, MS; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Dr. Edwin Lee Hudson.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2017, at 1pm in the chapel of Dickins Funeral Home, with Rev. Tommy Darby and Rev. Gary Garrison officiating. Burial will follow in Good Hope Cemetery. Visitation will be held in the funeral home on Thursday from 11am until service time at 1pm.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Good Hope Cemetery Fund, 1516 Good Hope Road, Batesville, MS 38606.

Dickins Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.