Hughes, Arkansas School Faculty Memorial
Emogene "Emmy" (Hudspeth) Maples
April 23, 1925 - November 2, 2013

Business Education
Tenure 1957-1961
Emogene (Hudspeth) Maples was born 23 Apr 1925 in Ashland, Mississippi, daughter of Robert and
Emma Hudspeth. She attended Mississippi State College for Women at Columbus, graduating in 1946
with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Secretarial Science. She married after graduation to Alvin Clark
Maples, and they taught school in Mississippi prior to coming to Hughes. She joined the Hughes
faculty as a Business Education teacher beginning in the ’57-’58 school year. Mrs. Maples and her
husband left Hughes after the ’60-’61 school year and took up residence in Millington, Shelby County,
Tennessee. She died 02 Nov 2013, interment in Northridge Woodhaven Cemetery, Millington.