Honor NoVA Supervisor By Donating To Community Center Bearing Her Name

RESTON, VA — Former Hunter Mill Supervisor Cathy Hudgins’ family is asking anyone who wishes to contribute money in her honor to donate to the nonprofit Friends of Southgate Community Center.

Donations will go to support Fairfax County’s Cathy Hudgins Community Center at Southgate in Reston. In October 2021, the center was renamed in her honor of Hudgins, who died on May 24 at the age of 81.

“This is a wonderful way for those of you that really treasured Cathy, as I did, and appreciated all of her public service and all of her private service over the years, to give back and to honor her memory,” said Supervisor Walter Alcorn (D-Hunter Mill).

For More: Read Cathy Hudgins’ full Obituary.

The renaming of the community center was meant to acknowledge Hudgins’ service to Reston and Fairfax County as a whole. She spearheaded the effort in 2006 to transform an old county property on Pinecrest Road in Reston into the Southgate Community Center. The center now provides the surrounding residents with a place to gather, recreate and learn.

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Hudgins’ family recently shared funeral arrangements for the former supervisor. A visitation is scheduled for Friday, June 6, from 10 to 11 a.m. at Saint Thomas A. Becket Catholic Church in Reston. This will be followed by a funeral service at 11 a.m. and a reception from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. at the church, which is located at 1421 Weihle Ave.

Related: Hudgins, Former Hunter Mill District Supervisor, Dies At 81

Hudgins and her husband, Willie, moved to Reston in 1969, which was only five years after Virginia’s first racially open community was founded. After growing up in segregated Arkansas, she worked as a programmer, consultant, and an analyst at AT&T.

Serving 20 years as the Hunter Mill supervisor, Hudgins was the first African American and non-white person elected to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.

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