Jennifer Hudson Announces Foundation for Murder Victim Families...Family to be laid to rest on Monday..!!

Jennifer Hudson family announced Thursday a new foundation for families of murder victims. The Hudson-King Foundation for Families of Slain Victims is named in honor of the singer-actress's slain mother Darnell Hudson Donerson, brother Jason Hudson and nephew Julian King. "The specific purpose of the Foundation is to care for the needs of families who have lost relatives to a violent crime," the family says in a statement. "This encompasses their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter as well as grief counseling."

Donations to the Hudson-King Foundation can be sent: c/o Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP Attn: William L. Abrams, Esq. 237 West 35th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10001

The foundation announcement followed a prayer vigil Wednesday night in Chicago. The service will be for invited guests only and, in lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to be made to the newly created Hudson-King Domestic Violence Protection Fund.

All members of Jennifer Hudson's family, will be allowed to attend a public memorial scheduled for the slain victims on Sunday, according to Entertainment Tonight. While Jennifer and her sister Julia Hudson won't be there, the service will bring together the neighborhood to grieve the loss they've suffered.

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