September Resident of the Month
Heritage Hill Senior community is pleased to announce Mattie Hudock as resident of the month for September 2021.
Mattie was born on April 9, 1924 in Junedale, Pa. She was the eleventh child born to Giles Evans and Mattie Edwards, who were both descendants of Welsh immigrants. Eventually there were 13 children in the family.
They lived in Trescow and moved to Weatherly when Mattie was a young teenager. At age 15, Mattie’s mother passed away and being the oldest female member of the household she stepped into the role of mother to her younger siblings, cook and housekeeper to her father and her brothers still living in the house.
As a freshman at Weatherly High School, she began to walk to school with a boy named Emerson Luhman. Mattie graduated from Weatherly and married Emerson. They had a daughter, Joyce (Stone) before Emerson was killed aboard the Indianapolis, the ship which had carried the Atom bomb that ended World War II. Later, Mattie married an Army veteran, Donald Hudock of Weatherly with whom she had a son, Donald.
She and Donald built a house on Fairview Street in Weatherly and it was the house she called home for more than 65 years until moving to Heritage Hill.
Mattie is loved by her children, her 4 grandsons and her 4 great-grandchildren. All of her family have enjoyed her famous peanut butter cookies, white fruitcake and currant bread.
