Title
Huddleston, Judy (1963)
Description
Judy Huddleston (born Judy Smith) grew up in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Lewis & Clark College as an elementary education major in 1963. She began dating her soon-to-be husband Hallie “Bud” Smith her junior year of college and they were soon engaged and married. She was a teacher in the Portland public school system for most of her life. Hallie joined the Air Force and was deployed to Vietnam in 1968 after completing flight school in South Carolina and a first assignment in England. Shortly after his deployment, his plane malfunctioned and crash-landed into a cliff. Judy temporarily stopped teaching in Portland and became a vocal advocate for POW-MIA Vietnam soldiers, working with Governor McCall and traveling to France to speak with North Vietnamese representatives. Hallie’s remains were never recovered. She remarried and has one child. She currently spends her time acting as a grief counselor for a local Presbyterian church as well as gardening and spending time at her beach house on the Oregon coast.
Subject
Oral History
Creator
Lewis & Clark College
Date
20160218
Format
PDF
Type
Text
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