Kathleen P. HUTSON

MATHEWS - Kathleen 'Kitty' P. Hutson passed away June 12, 2010, at her home "Chesapeake".
She was born Feb. 8, 1934. Kathleen is the owner and worked as the bookkeeper at Ocean Products for many years. She was a member of Peniel Evangelical Friends Church. She was a loving and very giving wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and friend to many. She was avid homemaker, loved cooking, and gardening and spent the last year enjoying her home on the Chesapeake Bay.
She is preceded in death by her husband of 59 years, Robert C. Hutson; her mother, Nellie H. Powell; her father, Frank Powell.
She is survived by two sons, James M. Hutson and his wife, Nancy and their son, Robert Wyatt of Mathews, Paul S. Hutson and his sons, Samuel and Sawyer and daughter, Lauren; and two great-grandchildren of North Carolina; two daughters, Susan H. Thomas and her husband, John W. Thomas and Robin H. Hurst and her husband, Steve and their children, Matthew, Amanda, Benjamin and Sarah all of Mathews; her loving sister, Betty P. Richards; two brothers, Bobby Powell and wife, Joyce of Williamsburg, Va., and Buddy Powell and wife, Lavern of Richmond, Va.; her nieces, Theresa Norfleet, Kathy Byrum, Lynn Blythe, Patricia Powell; a nephew, Tommy Richards; nine great-nieces and nephews all of Suffolk, Va. She is also survived by a special sister-in-law, Mary E. Hall and her husband, Brown; a special nephew, James E. Hall and his wife, Karen of Mathews and a niece Mary Lynn Stairs of Gloucester, Va., and many other great-nieces and nephews and faithful employees.
The family would like to extend special thanks to the Rev. Tom Steele for the many visits and spiritual support and to Nora Ellen Fitchett, Arma Willis, Vivian Abernathy, Melinda Brooks, Donna Fitchett and Ann Godsey for the special care during her last year and also to Hospice.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 14, at Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, Mathews, Va. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Tom Steele officiating. Interment will follow at Milford Cemetery, Moon, Va.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Mathews Volunteer Fire Dept., P.O. Box 1130, Mathews, VA 23109, the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 723, Mathews, VA 23109, Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society, P.O. Box 385, Gloucester, VA 23061 or to Peniel Evangelical Friends Church, P.O. Box 6390, Onemo, VA 23130. View and post condolences on our online guestbook at dailypress.com/guestbooks.