Allan MacMillan Hudson, 1919 - 2012, resident of Carmel, Surrounded by family in his Carmel home, CDR Allan M. Hudson, USN (Ret) passed from this life late in the evening of July 28 at the age of 93. Allan was born in Monterey, California on April 7, 1919, son of Rear Admiral Lester Jay and Margaret Hudson and grandson of engineer and entrepreneur A. M. Allan of Point Lobos and painter Charles Bradford Hudson. Allan was the oldest of four sons. As a boy, Allan's playground was A.M. Allan's ranch, which included what is now Point Lobos State Preserve. He attended the Bay School at Monastery Beach. Many of Allan's fondest memories were forged on this beautiful piece of the California Coast. Allan spent his high school years in San Pedro, California, he then attended U.C. Berkeley from 1937 to 1939. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis in June 1939. During this time, he met Mary Rea Benson. Allan's class finished a year early due to the war, and Mary and Allan were married a week later in Washington, DC on June 24, 1942. Allan saw combat in the South Pacific aboard USS New Orleans. Following the war, Allan served at sea and was also stationed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California and at the Navy Boiler and Turbine Laboratory in Philadelphia. Following his active naval service, Allan and his family returned to the Monterey Peninsula where he worked as an engineer for Firestone Tire, at Dalmo Victor Laboratories, and then was a founding partner of Del Monte Technical Associates in 1960. In 1966, Allan and Mary moved the family from Carmel to Mountain View, where Allan took an engineering position with Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Palo Alto. Allan left SRI to start his own company, Hudson Controls, in Mountain View, where he designed and built numerous state-of-the-art control systems for a variety of industrial applications. For 58 years, Allan and Mary enjoyed a loving marriage complete with all the joys and challenges of raising 8 children. After Mary's stroke in 1988, they returned to Carmel where Allan cared for Mary until her death in 2000. In 2002, Allan met Joanne McFann of Carmel and together they shared over 10 years of love, companionship, and travel. Allan was an artist at heart, which made him a brilliantly creative engineer. There was nothing Allan could not build, fix or improve. Among other interests, Allan made jewelry, learned stained glass art, built model railroads, learned to cook, played the piano, and loved and cared for his many animal companions. Allan leaves a legacy of valuing creativity, appreciation of family history, and commitment to family and country. Allan is predeceased by his wife Mary, son Alex, and brothers, Tom and David. Allan is survived by his brother John (Monica) of Point Lobos; his children: Michael (Barbara Lyons) of Mountain View; Peggy Hudson of San Diego; Rhaea (Elizabeth) Hudson Maurel of Boston, MA; daughter-in-law Cari Collins Hudson of Preston, Idaho; Sarah Adams (Lew) of Carmel; Martha Sakakura (Randy) of Linden; Peter (Anna Shimko) of Sausalito; and Patrick (Julie Nelson) of Woodbine, MD; his grandchildren: Jon, Jeff, Kate, Ben, Charles, Chris, Alisa, Jenny, Brandon, Brian, Mac, and Turner, many nieces and nephews, and Joanne McFann, her four sons, Michael, David, Gregory and John and their families. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be sent in Allan's name to the Point Lobos Foundation Route 1, Box 62, Carmel, CA, 93923.

Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on August 10, 2012.