Services will be held Sunday and Monday afternoons in Mathews and Gloucester to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the two counties. The slain civil rights leader would have turned 97 years old today, Thursday, Jan. 15. MLK Day has been a federal holiday since 1986, observed on the third Monday of January. In Mathews Mathews Branch NAACP will hold its annual MLK Jr. program at 3 p.m. Sunday at Mathews Chapel United Methodist Church, 4185 Buckley Hall Road, Cobbs Creek. The program’s theme is “Reclaiming the Dream” and the keynote speaker is Bryant Hudgins, administrator of Walter Reed Post Acute in Gloucester, a division of Virginia Health Services. Hudgins began working at Walter Reed in 1995 as a Certified Nursing Assistant working with elderly patients. He soon went to Rappahannock Community College to become a Licensed Practical Nurse, and worked his way through the ranks, running the Skilled Rehabilitation unit up to overseeing facility admissions, insurance reimbursement, ...