Octavia Metrice “Puddin” Hughley, 39, of Chattanooga, passed away on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, in a local hospital.
She was a 2001 graduate of Brainerd High School. She attended Virginia College and Chattanooga State Community College. Octavia was employed with Cigna in the Customer Service Department.
Octavia was preceded in death by grandmothers; Marion Norris and Mary Hughley; grandfathers; Willie Norris, Jimmy Williams, and James Foster; aunt, Stephaine Jones; great grandmother; Geneva Dillard and Dorothy Williams.
Survivors include her daughters, Kennedy Hughley, Kimora Hughley, and Kendall Hughley, all of Chattanooga; mother, Sherl Foster; father, Arthur Foster, Sr.; grandmother, Maedell Foster, all of Chattanooga; daddy, Gregory Hughley of Opelika, AL; brothers, Jeremaine Foster of Stone Mountain, GA and Arthur Foster Jr. of Nashville; sisters, Lakeashia (TJ) Akins of Chattanooga, Joy Melton, Kelsey Locke, Jamela Hughley, all of Opelika, AL; uncles, Henry Dillard of Chattanooga, James Williams of Nashville, William Foster, Timothy Jones, Chris Jones, and Charles Williams, all of Chattanooga, aunts, Ruby Dillard, Vonetta (Marcellus Sr.) Clay of Tampa, FL, Patricia Williams, Linda Foster, and Diane Collins, all of Chattanooga; several nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.
Octavia will lie in state on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 10 a.m. at Taylor Funeral Home.
Funeral services will follow at 3 p.m. in the chapel with Pastor LeVaughn Flanders as the eulogist.